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LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fl.. (October 26, 1998) Virtual Mechanics today announced the release of IMS Web Engine Professional, Version 1.0, the company's new flagship Animation Software for the creation of Interactive Web Pages. "IMS Web Engine (Professional)" is a visual DHTML authoring application for the creation of interactive web pages, games, stories, and educational dynamic content. The program features a WYSIWYG, Drag and Drop intuitive interface that is ideal for the novice user while providing many desktop publishing components that are demanded by the professional. IMS Web Engine (Professional) is available at a special introductory price of $49.95 until the end of December 1998 on Win95/98 and NT 4 systems.
Reviews of the Beta Release have been extremely encouraging. "This is an excellent project... I have every confidence this will be a five star product upon release." ZDNet. ~ Dwayne. "This puts you in with the elite (in our opinion) of Internet Related software." -Review Board, TuCows. Examples of IMS Web Engine Dynamic HTML animation can be found throughout the Virtual Mechanics site www.VirtualMechanics.com
A full review of the Invader UFO style game was made by Joe BurnsPh.D. at the HTML Goodies site. "Visually, It's stunning. Things just fly everywhere.." . Virtual Mechanics was established in 1997 by Steve White, a pioneer in the development computer animation technology with previous successful startups including Vertigo Graphics in Vancouver Canada and Neo-Visuals Inc. that was acquired by SAS Institute of Raleigh North Carolina. Virtual Mechanic's mandate is to develop leading Interactive Animation software applications. Future products scheduled for release within the next three to nine months include IMS Web Engine (Personal), specifically designed for quick web page authoring, and IMS 3D for advanced Internet related 3D applications.
Virtual Mechanics is a true virtual Internet company with operations in South Florida, St. Louis, Ontario and the UK. Virtual Mechanic's Software products are distributed exclusively over the Internet. "Delivering software via the Internet has several advantages over traditional distribution methods." according to Steve White. "The most significant of these are low overhead, free product trials and the ability to offer no hassle
updates to customers on a timely basis." IMS Web Engine (Professional) is a 32 bit Object Oriented application written in C++. The program is available for a 30 day free trial at http://www.VirtualMechanics.com/download.htm . Questions regarding
the company, its products and operations should be directed to info@VirtualMechanics.com .
"IMS Web Engine (Professional)" is a visual DHTML authoring application forthe creation of interactive web pages, games, stories, and educational dynamic content. "IMS Web Engine's" Drag and Drop intuitive user interface is ideal for novice users while its extensive set of features provides more functions than even the professional expects. IMS Web Engine is designed for Win95/98/NT.
Features unique to "IMS Web Engine" include Inverse Mechanics and Artificial Behavior which means that vector geometry can be used as motion paths in a hierarchical fashion while triggers can be defined by more than simple Mouse and Timing Events. Behaviors include amongst others: Object Intersection, Object Triggers, Advanced Counter Triggers, Metamorph
operations or Combinations based on Logical AND/OR flags.
Other features include a TEXT, HTML and Rich Text editor that also supports conversion between these formats and the ability to import/export these formats from other popular text editors including MS Word. HTML can be imported, manually edited and used without concern that it will be modification by the program. In addition to creating motion paths, the Vector/Polygon editor can be used to create buttons and graphics with texture maps. "IMS Web Engine" supports the import/export of several popular bitmap and audio formats including GIF, JPEG, BMP, WAV and Midi. The program can also be instructed to gather all files together into the publishdirectory to substantially minimize the occurrence of missing objects in the webpage.
IMS Web Engine (Professional) is the first of a series of products to be released by VirtualMechanics. IMS (Interactive Multimedia System) delivers intelligent Behaviors and InverseMechanics to vector based graphics, sprites, text and audio to create dynamic interactivemultimedia presentations.
IMS Web Engine (Personal) is scheduled for release prior to the end of the 1998. This product
will provide many of the feature available in the professional version but with many simplified userinterface functions. This product will be ideal for the casual web page designer.
IMS Web Engine 3D is scheduled for release in the second quarter of 1999. It will provide
interactive 3D capabilities to the serious Internet Web author. Output will be in VRML and otheremerging formats.
Virtual Mechanics is also developing other software products and will announce them as they become available.
Availability:
IMS Software products are distributed exclusively over the Internet. Delivering software via theInternet has several advantages over traditional distribution methods. The most significant of theseare pricing, trials and updates.
Distributors and packaging can easily double the price of a software product. IMS customers areInternet professionals that are accustomed to on line commerce. We can consequently pass significant savings from traditional distribution methods, on to our customers.
Software products are often outdated before the end user even takes them out of the box. It is not uncommon for a purchaser to install a new product then visit the software developer's web site to update to the latest version. Our fully functional 30 day software trial and no hassle updates means that the end user can be confident in their purchase and know that they can simply download the latest product version as soon as it becomes available. You don't even need tocontact us for a new password or registration .
Normal Price: $99.95
Special Price: $49.95 Introductory special until the end of December 1998
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