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Hi-res satellite photo in Max


Jefferson Grigsby
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Before the days of direct 3D and Xp64, I used the Maxtreme driver for just about everything in Max. Now that we have upgraded to xp64, the Maxtreme driver is no longer supported and does not work.

 

The best feature was its ability to display hi-res textures in the viewport. With Direct 3D, I am limited to 512x512, where Maxtreme allowed up 4096x4096. Thes was great for tracing over large satellite images.

 

does anyone else have a soluation for this, or know if there will be any updated maxtreme drivers for xp64?

 

thanks in Advance

Jefferson Grigsby

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It's unfourtunate that the company I know that has a solution for this has no ethics, or I would reccomend them to you. They owed us a great deal of money and they broke a legally binding contract.

 

Have you tried posting on the 3ds max forums? There is likely some GIS guys on there.

 

Found this link on Google, but not sure if it's what you are trying to do. Also requires that you have ArcGIS.

 

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/arcmap23ds/index.htm

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Before the days of direct 3D and Xp64, I used the Maxtreme driver for just about everything in Max. Now that we have upgraded to xp64, the Maxtreme driver is no longer supported and does not work.

 

The best feature was its ability to display hi-res textures in the viewport. With Direct 3D, I am limited to 512x512, where Maxtreme allowed up 4096x4096. Thes was great for tracing over large satellite images.

 

does anyone else have a soluation for this, or know if there will be any updated maxtreme drivers for xp64?

 

thanks in Advance

Jefferson Grigsby

We use to import it into autocad and that worked well then just saved the lines out as a .3ds file and imported to max

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