EMAIL: mbcx7tdy@stud.man.ac.uk
NAME: Tom York
TOPIC: Alien Invasion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Bomb
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~tomy/
RENDERER USED: MegaPOV v0.2
TOOLS USED: BMP2AVI and AVI2MPG1
CREATION TIME: Uncertain, but at least 120hrs rendering time
HARDWARE USED: P166MMX (Win95) PC with 64MB RAM
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Windows media player works OK.

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
A key event in the forth Hinosten-Deltori war, showing the bombing of
Muddyfish III by elements of a Hinosten assault group. After arriving
in the system via hyperspace, the Hinosten fleet moves in towards the
single inhabited planet in the Muddyfish system; they are engaged in
orbit by some unprepared Deltori frigates and their corvette escorts.
Major cities on the planet are then bombed from orbit by the surviving
Hinosten ships, using fusion devices.

BITS WRITTEN BY OTHER PEOPLE
  The nebulae backgrounds were all created using Chris Colefax's excellent
Galaxy include file. I also used Chris' object exploder to destroy bits of
the space ship objects. The appearance of the solar lens flare used in the
animation was based on the 'headlight2' flare from Chris' LensFX (although
the code was written from scratch).

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
  The animation was first planned out scene by scene - this plan was
later altered at several points, but since the scenes were created one
after the other, this did not involve too much re-rendering. Most
scenes were 81 frames long, but the first one is double length (161 frames).
The animation used the standard POV animation system (the clock variable
:-). I used BMP2AVI on the rendered TGA files to preview the animation
as I added each scene and checked the file size using an MPEG-1 codec.
Finally, I BMP2AVI'd the finished animation using no compression, and used
AVI2MPG1 to convert this to MPEG-1 format. I include source code, although
it's a little confused. You'll need Chris Colefax's Galaxy and Object 
Exploder include files if you want to re-render all the scenes.