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ELSA MAXtreme User’s Guide

Version 1.1.1

NVIDIA Corporation April 18, 2002

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Table of Contents

1.Overview of ELSA MAXtreme

What Is ELSA MAXtreme? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ELSA MAXtreme Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Wireframe Viewport Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Rendered (Shaded) Viewport Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

MAXtremeStereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

MAXtremeRender (for ELSA MAXtreme Release 3 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Online Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

General Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Stereo Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.Installing ELSA MAXtreme

Installation Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing ELSA MAXtreme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Uninstalling ELSA MAXtreme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.Using ELSA MAXtreme

ELSA MAXtreme Driver Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Accessing ELSA MAXtreme Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Auto-configuring for Speed or Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Configuring Individual Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Explanation of Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

MAXtreme Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

MAXtreme Stereo Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Accessing ELSA MAXtreme Stereo Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Using the MAXtreme Stereo Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

MAXtremeRender for ELSA MAXtreme Release 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Accessing the MAXtremeRender Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Using MAXtremeRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

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What Is ELSA MAXtrem e?

The ELSA MAXtreme™ 3D application driver is a tool that enhances the productivity of 3D Studio® applications such as 3ds max

The driver allows you to control the application’s viewport display quality and rendering speed, as well as enable a variety of rendering enhancements.

The ELSA MAXtreme 3D driver is optimized for use with an NVIDIA® Quadro™ based graphics card, which increases the capabilities of the driver’s interactive renderer.

ELSA MAXtreme Features

The following sections provide an overview of the key features in ELSA MAXtreme:

Wireframe Viewport Options

• Apply antialiasing to wireframes

• Render wireframes using triangle strips

• Customize the vertex dot size

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Rendered (Shaded) Viewport Options

• Apply antialiasing to edged faces

• Render using the environmental background color

• Render fogging

• Customize the vertex dot size

• Configure magnification texture filtering for quality or speed

• Configure minification texture filtering for quality or speed

• Control anisotropic texture filtering

• Compress textures for quality or speed

• Control background texture size

• Control material texture size

MAXtremeStereo

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ELSA MAXtreme supports stereo viewing within viewports through the MAXtremeStereo plug-in software, which can be installed with the ELSA MAXtreme driver software.

See “MAXtreme Stereo Requirements” on page 15 for a list of hardware required to view 3D stereo.

MAXtremeRender (for ELSA MAXtreme Release 3

The ELSA MAXtremeRender feature is only available with ELSA MAXtreme Release 3 versions under 3D Studio Release 3 applications. This feature is part of the 3D Studio Release 4 applications (such as 3ds max 4) and, therefore, not available as a separate ELSA MAXtreme Release 4 feature.

See “MAXtremeRender for ELSA MAXtreme Release 3” on page 18.

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Online Help

Within the 3D Studio application, when you have any ELSA MAXtreme dialog box open, press F1 to display online Help, which provides user information about ELSA MAXtreme features and configuration options.

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During ELSA MAXtreme installation, MAXtreme Help (a the 3D Studio Help directory. You can also view the Help outside the application, if needed.

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System Requirements

General Requirements

• Hard Disk Space: 2.5 MB free hard disk space

• Graphics Card: Workstation graphics card based on the NVIDIA Quadro™ ,

Quadro™2, Quadro™ DCC, or Quadro™4 product families.

Table 1.1 lists the equivalent ELSA graphics cards.

Table 1.1

GPUs Supported by ELSA MAXtreme

ELSA Graphics Card NVIDIA GPU

Quadro™4 500 GoGL

Quadro4 900 XGL

Quadro4 750 XGL

Quadro4 700 XGL

Quadro4 550 XGL

Quadro™2 Go

ELSA GLoria™ DCC Quadro DCC™

ELSA GLoria III Quadro2 Pro™

ELSA Synergy™ III Quadro2 MXR™

ELSA Synergy 2000 Quadro2 EX™

ELSA GLoria II Quadro

Note: ELSA MAXtreme 3.xx and later releases will not run with the ELSA Synergy II

graphics card. Older versions (earlier than Release 3) of ELSA MAXtreme can run with ELSA Synergy II with ELSA driver software.

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Overview of ELSA MAXtreme

• Operating System: Windows® XP,Windows® 2000 or Windows NT® 4 (Service Pack

4 or higher)

• 3D Studio Application: You must have one of the following 3D Studio applications

installed on your computer before installing ELSA MAXtreme.

• 3ds max 4

• 3D Studio MAX Release 3

• 3D Studio VIZ Release 3i

• 3D Studio VIZ Release 3

• NVIDIA Driver: The NVIDIA Detonator

3 (v6.46 or later) or Detonator XP driver

for Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0 must be installed.

Stereo Requirements

• MAXtremeStereo plug-in software installed during the ELSA MAXtreme driver installation

• Stereo shutter glasses

1. ELSA MAXtreme 4 (and 4.00.xx versions) works with 3ds max 4 but is not compatible with 3D Studio MAX 3.

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