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After finish the design of the building and its components, now i am working on getting some knowledge on Python programming language to start programming some events,  like open the lobby doors automatic when the patient is close to. And start programming the first person camera, and movements.

View from inside the elevator

View from inside the elevator 

At this point the patient should be verbally prepared to start the therapy, because at this point is where the patient will front the acrophobia. The elevator have a panoramic view so he can view through the glass and initially he are on the lobby so he will be looking to the parking. I was thinking on put some objects on this scene that have some height to give the feel to the patient that he is gaining height when the elevator start up, so i decided to design a city with different buildings and heights. 

Elevators area

Elevators area

On this screen shot i am showing how the elevators area looks, this area is located at the left side of the front desk and is composed by two elevators, some laps and two plants to decorate the area. When the therapy specialist is close to the door an press the button the elevators open and the specialist enters the patient to the elevator to start up.

The wait area

The wait area

The wait area is composed by five furniture pieces, four red fashion seats and one table with a glass top.

Inside the building

Inside the building

 Inside the building i decided to make it as a hotel lobby, where the first front view will show the reception with four computers on the front desk, the floor as been designed as a marble floor with reflections to give more reality to the scene, and also i decided to design a wait area on the right side and the elevators to the left. This lobby also have illumination and lamps and also shadow fx's.

Building Design

Blender Screenshot 

This is a view from outside the building, this screenshot as been taken from the blender work place, so this is not how it will finally look because the image is not rendered; below is the rendered version.

Render View

This is the first scene that the patient will see when start the therapy, here the specialist can take the patient to all the scenario outside the building and talk with him to get the patient prepared before enter the building and start the gaining height inside the panoramic elevator. This is very important because we are working with the emotions and health of the people, so we need to first prepare him verbally before start the hardest part that is start gaining height inside the panoramic elevator and  looking around. 

Blender (3D Modeling software and game engine)

For the development of the virtual reality environment i will be using Blender 3D 2.63 for Mac OS. This software is an open source (free) 3D modeling software and game engine that is used for visual fx's , 3D animations and video games. This platform as been released on 1995 and use Python as the main programming language for scripting. Blender is very convenient for this project because have all the tools that i need to design and develop the scenario needed to make this software works for a patient!