Hi,
I was wondering if there were any recommended boards that work with 3-D studio
or Animator Studio for hardware acceleration of rendering using a glint chip or
other chipset. Does anyone use these things? Do they work?
Thanks,
John
Hi John,
With 3DS/R4, there are no provisions for 3D hardware acceleration. With R5
under NT, there *probably* will be. (I don't know if there have been any
specific announcements regarding that… I just keep reading messages from
Jonas (AdesK) saying "… please visit us at SIGGRAPH…" 🙂
Anyway, since the native NT environment supports OpenGL and boards such as
ELSA's GLoria support OpenGL with 3D hardware accelaration, you can probably
count on 3D acceleration with R5.
If you are interested in additional information on ELSA products, feel free to
send email or contact ELSA at 800-272-ELSA. You can also download the file,
WINNER.TXT from the libraries here to get an overview of ELSA's product line.
I hope that helps.
Sincerely,
Tom