Mr Revolver Announced

Posted by Brad on 03/27 at 09:40 PM

Barcelona, Spain – March 27, 2006 – Konkeptoine, a major developer of shaders and plug-ins for the Electric Image Animation System, a work horse animation software for the Hollywood film industry, today announced the immediate availability of the Mr. Revolver Plug-in.

Mr. Revolver provides users with the abilty generate hard surface geometry quickly and easily. When combined with its sister plugins, Mrs. Bebel, Encage, and EIAS' own internal deformation system, a number of shapes and forms can be created without the hassle of jumping in and out of another software package.

In addition to its modeling capabilities, Revolver also provides a number of animation channels including the abilty to animate a model down to the individual control point level. This is a first for EIAS.

Revolvers key tools include:

An internal cross section editor capable of generating outlines for revolving or surfaces for extruding when combined with Mrs. Bebel.
The ability to revolve imported child line objects.
Adjustable revolve resolution for both Animator and Camera.
Partial revolve capabilties. (Which can also be animated)
Section control. Create a shape through a partial revolve and then replicate that shape around the Y axis.
Offset functions. (Which can also be animated)
Custom smoothing controls, normals control, and automatic UV coordinate generation.

Capping functions for both U and V directions.
RangeU. This tool allows users to define where along the cross section's U direction to actually generate geometry. This value can also be animated.
Time Travel. This tool allows a user to manipulate a cross section over time and position resulting in the ability to generate spirals and other custom effects.
Internal graph editor with a number of tools helpful in aligning and distributing points. Mirror functions, equidistant offseting tools, 2d point scaling capabilties and more.