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3D Studio MAX and VIZ are powerful applications for modeling, rendering,
visualizing and animating 3D objects. The software package includes two
standard graphics drivers to be used alternatively with differing performance
characteristics—a HEIDI driver (software Z buffer/SZB), and an OpenGL API
driver (for hardware acceleration).
ELSA is the only manufacturer of graphics boards to have developed an opti-
mized solution to increase user productivity and fully exploit existing perfor-
mance reserves: ELSA MAXtreme is a special driver for 3D Studio MAX/VIZ
which makes the most of the special features of the
ELSA GLoria and ELSA
Synergy graphics boards. It offers many improvements over standard drivers
and thus considerable increases in performance and productivity when used
with these applications.
Features and benefits
By developing a driver tailored to 3D Studio MAX and 3D Studio VIZ, ELSA's
software developers have laid the foundation for further optimization and
new functions which will be available only in
ELSA GLoria and ELSA Synergy
graphics accelerators in the future.
By using ELSA MAXtreme, many effects which would otherwise not be visi-
ble until the final video-rendering stage can be displayed during the creative
phase in “working view”. These include:
a) Transparency: Normally, transparent objects are displayed in 3D Studio
MAX/VIZ by stippled “clouds” of varying densities (“stippled” or “screen
door” process). This shows, to an extent, whether an object is transparent or
not and how translucent it is. Even so, the visual impression it gives is not
one of a transparent object. ELSA MAXtreme allows you to select:
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Whether transparent objects are at all displayed in a transparent way
(non-transparent display of transparent objects is, of course, particularly
fast);
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Whether to use the standard method described above;
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Whether transparent objects are actually displayed as transparent, i.e. by
blending the transparent object's color with the color of the objects
located behind them.
A further improvement is spatial sorting of transparent objects before they
are displayed ('sorted blending') which gives a perfect impression of transpar-
ency even where there are any number of transparent objects in the scene.