TITLE: Tatooine: POD RACE NAME: H. E. Day (Howard Earl) COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: PovRayGuy@aol.com TOPIC: Gadgets and Odd Devices COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: tatooine.mpg JPGFILE: tatooine.jpg ZIPFILE: tatooine.zip RENDERER USED: Pov Ray 3.1 (Superpatched) TOOLS USED: GUM RENDER TIME: 48 hours HARDWARE USED: Pentium 200Mhz MMX 32MB RAM ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This is my version of a scene in the new STAR WARS movie. If you've seen the trailer you know what I mean. If not, this race happens on Tatooine, a desert planet. The racers are two big rockets held together by some sort of energy, with a control-pod being pulled along chariot-style. Hopefully, this will tide you over till the movie comes out... Anyway, this is the first IRTC animation that I know of that uses a motion blur created completely in Pov-Ray. Anyone is welcome to use this file, as long as they give me credit where credit is due, as I created it. The file that did this is in the .zip file (motionblur.pov). It will motion blur any animation exported to sequencial *.tga files. You just declare the prefix (such as C:\images\anim - this will load c:\images\anim001.tga, c:\images\anim002.tga, etc.) and the number of frames. The file uses the average pattern, putting 3 sequencial frames together. You can use any number of frames, but in this animation I used a 3:1 (600 normal frames, 200 final) ratio. HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: I used the superpatch splines for the paths of the speeders and camera. I had to write my own code to make them align and turn with the path, however. The motion blur you already know about. The terrain was created in Photoshop 5, and edited in Pov-Ray. The Pods were made in GUM, which is available on the povray ftp site under modellers. The "Tatooine" text in the lower-left corner and the dust blowing by was rendered at the same time as the motion blur. The Lens-flares at the end of the flic were created with Nathan Kopp's Lens-Flare Plugin version 5. Hope you enjoy this one! H.E. Day Note: My younger brother helped some on the designs of the speeders. He just wanted you to know.