Rodeo - Rigid Body Dynamics for the EIAS

Welcome to Rodeo, a new plugin for the Electric Image Animation System. It introduces a powerful rigid body dynamics engine to the EIAS Animator. It calculates the acceleration of objects based on the forces that act on the objects mass. If an object collides with another object the force of the collision will change the kinetic energy of that object and it will travel into a different direction based on Newton's laws. Fortunately you only need to know a small fraction of the underlying physics to use Rodeo in a meaningful way. Rodeo is easy to understand and fun to use.

You can see what our beta testers did with Rodeo here. We will be glad to include your Rodeo animation in our gallery. Please contact ramjac Software, if you have a nice animation to show off.

Installation

The Rodeo plugin will be installed with the EI7 installer inside your EI sockets folder within you application folder. If you install Rodeo manually please read here where to install all related files.

Comments, suggestions and bug reports

Please post all comments, suggestions and bug reports in the ramjac Forum. Its the central place of communication between you and us.

If you send us a bug report please state: MacPPC/MacUB/PC, single/multi processor, EIAS version, Rodeo version, and if applicable a crashlog.

Minimum System Requirements:

Mac/Windows, EIAS7