We are pleased to release fully-supported drivers for OpenGL® 3.0 for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux on select GeForce® and Quadro® solutions.
Further demonstrating our leadership and commitment to OpenGL and the standardization process, these drivers enable software developers to take full advantage of all OpenGL 3.0 capabilities, accelerating their delivery of cutting-edge media platforms and applications.
The next 3 chapters of GPU Gems 3 on are now up. This week's chapters cover techniques for shadow maps and global illumination.
Chapters this week:
Beginning this week we'll be releasing the full text of GPU Gems 3 on the NVIDIA website -- Seven chapters to start, and then three chapters per week between now and GDC 2009.
Click here to begin reading the first section of GPU Gems 3,
Geometry.
Chapters this week:
We are proud to announce the release of the NVIDIA PhysX Plug-ins for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya.
These plug-ins allow users to easily create, manipulate and export physics simulations directly in the content creation tool of their choice.
The plug-ins support a wide range of features such as:
- Rigid bodies
- Constraint specification
- Cloth
- Fluids
- Soft bodies
- Force fields
- Exporting
- Numerous sample projects
Download them today from the PhysX DCC Plug-ins page.
Autodesk 3D Studio Max
Autodesk Maya
We're proud to announce the release of PerfHUD 6.5 Beta, NVIDIA's award-winning Direct3D debugger and performance analysis tool.
PerfHUD 6.5 adds the ability to save an entire set of Direct3D10 Frames to disk for later analysis. Use the Ctrl+S hotkey from the Frame Debugger (F7) mode to save a capture to disk.
Dragging the saved .nvc file onto the PerfHUD desktop icon will launch the PerfHUD Replayer application, and allow you to analyze the capture using the standard PerfHUD user interface.
Download it now on the PerfHUD page!
