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----- Mad F/X now available on NVidia.com! - March 25, 2003 | 9:30 p.m. EST - by Jamie Parent
NVidia will now be hosting our Mad F/X demo directly off their site! You can get to it by going to www.NVidia.com, clicking on "Entertainment" and then "Downloads". You can also jump directly to it by clicking here.
----- Optimized for DX9 and up to 40% faster! - March 9, 2003 | 11:00 p.m. EST - by Scott Bean
We have recently released an optimized version of Mad F/X. This long awaited version is highly optimized for DirectX9 and is up to 40% faster than version 1.0. We have added a vertex cache optimization tool along with advanced state managment system which dramatically increases frame rates on either extremelly high polygon scenes, or scenes with extreme amounts of individual objects. You can download the update here.
------3DS import bug fixed! - March 4, 2003 | 11:00 p.m. EST - by Scott Bean
For those of you who have installed the demo or retail version of Mad F/X within the last week or so, you might have noticed the 3DS importer was not working. To resolve this problem please download the updated 3DS plugin here.
------The new Mad-FX.com - Feb 25, 2003 | 12:00 p.m. EST - by Scott Bean
We are proud to announce the launch or our newly designed website. We hope that these changes will offer a better insight into the company, allow for better support, and showcase more of Mad F/X's capabilities.
------Mad F/X now supports DirectX 9.0 - Feb 25, 2003 | 12:00 p.m. EST - by Scott Bean
We have officially made the jump to fully support DirectX 9.0 in version 1.070 and higher of Mad F/X. This release works great with all ATI Radeon 8000/9000 series and NVidia GeForce 3/4/FX (not MX) series cards.With this new release, we added some key optimizations which yield up to 40% increase in speeds. This was done by adding a very efficient state management system to our MAD-Engine, and also adding a dynamic vertex caching algorithm. You will see these performance increases when viewing objects consisting of very large amounts of polygons and a dramatic increase in speed for scenes with very large amounts of seperate objects.
We have also released a new D3D (.X) import plugin which can be found here.
------Mad F/X Demo! - Feb 25, 2003 | 12:00 p.m. EST - by Scott Bean
For those of you waiting so patiently to experience Mad F/X for your own eyes, we have released a demo version of Mad F/X. The demo has a "demo version" backdrop, locked image/animation output and a usage trial of 20 times. The demo can be found here, and update patches for the full and demo version can be found here.Enjoy!
------Mad F/X 1.0 Released! - Dec 24, 2002 | 12:00 p.m. EST - by Scott Bean
We are proud to announce the official release of Mad Software's Mad F/X 1.0 for a low introductory price of $69 USD. If you have an interest in purchasing our software please follow this link to our online store. You can also join our Inside FX newsletter to get the scoop on what is shaking at Mad Software and what upcomming technologies you will see in our next version of Mad F/X!!!