TITLE: Toy Racers
NAME: Tim Latimer
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: tim.latimer@usa.net
TOPIC: Toys
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: toyrace.mpg
ZIPFILE: toyrace.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.01


TOOLS USED: 


sPatch for some modelling,
CMPEG for MPEG encoding,
Lens Effects include by Chris Colefax for lens flare.
Painshop Pro for JPEG conversion of the movie poster.


CREATION TIME: 


around 90 hours parsing and rendering, and around 4 hours mpeg conversion.


HARDWARE USED: 


Pentium 133


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


The animation shows two toy cars racing around a minature version of the famous
Monaco grand prix circuit.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 


This animation should playback at 24 fps.
I reccomend Vmpeg to view the animation.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


All objects and textures used were created specifically for this animation,
The duvet and the main part of the f1 car's body were created in sPatch, 
everything else has been hand-coded in Pov-ray.
All textures are also hand coded, and no image files were used for the
textures.

No post-processing for the animation or the movie poster was used.

Everything needed to render this animation yourself has been included except
the
lensflare include file.

The animation all runs from one main file. The track and the car's movement are
created by listing different include files which describe the different
properties of each track piece.

The list of pieces for the moncao layout was found on the internet at
http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~snowmanf/pages/slottrack.html
The dimensions for the different pieces were also found on this site.

The track peices, barriers and start gantry are based on a popular 1/32 scale
slot racing system.