High Speed, High Fidelity NASCAR Racing Excitement

"NASCAR HEAT" is a NASCAR racing simulation that features door-to-door racing at white-knuckle speeds. NASCAR HEAT, developed by Monster Games and published by Hasbro Interactive, is realistically based on the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Season.

MultiGen Creator is the primary development tool that Monster Games used for producing the "worlds" of NASCAR HEAT. Textures were created in Photoshop and 3D Studio Max was used for occasional animation needs. Practically all modeling, texturing, and level-of-detail generation tasks were done in MultiGen Creator Pro. Creator Pro with its Road Tools Option allowed us to model and texture these real-world locations quickly, accurately, and in such a way that it was efficient enough to run at 60 fps on today's cutting edge machines.

The artists on this project came from architectural backgrounds and had used animation-based tools at their old jobs. The team found MultiGen Creator to be quite easy to learn, and took advantage of the speed of modeling, quick yet accurate texturing tools, and easy LOD creation.

Monster Games, Inc.
(MGI) Racing
Northfield, MN, USA
www.nascarheat.com

Team: Owen Justice, Brian McCabe, Todd Lagare, Sue Spychalla, David Whiteman, David Broske, Richard Garcia, David Pollatsek, Troy Harder