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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Unknown Target on October 15, 2003, 06:44:30 pm
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Here we go:
http://www.cgchannel.com/news/shownews.jsp?newsID=2026
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Can it be used to make files for use in games, or is it like the gmax thing?
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Is maya any good? I know _very_ little about it...
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SWEET
this is what they make big budget movies with
a license generaly costs like $20,000 or something absurd like that
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Yay!
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yeah i've heard it's an extremely awesome program, extremely professional, and you can get a very well paying job just knowing your way around it
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I beleive that while Maya PLE can open standard Maya files, it only saves in a proprietary format that other programs cannot open, even full-version Maya. It is designed to introduce users to Maya and pave the way for single seat license purchases with cost "only" $1900 us IIRC.
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My Computer Science course teaches the use of Maya. I could get a head start...
And if it saves files AT ALL, I can write a converter that'll turn them into 3DS Max text files.
Damn, I love this ResNet connection. T3 speeds for £50 a year, straight off the University's own fibre-optic connection.
Current speed downloading Maya: 155kb/s. That's actually quite slow compared to the 535kb/s I normally get.
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So his is a full version of Maya? Bu you can't sell anything? Pardon my ignorance, but for $1900 less what do you lose?
EDIT: Downloading.:D
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Ok, now THIS is awesome. I'm not a real 3D moddeling/rendering kinda person but this really motivates me to learn it! :D
*downloads*
Ow and HA! @ all win9x/ME users! You can't use it! *evil laugh*
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Good move by Alias. Not that this changes anything I do. :p
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Likewise, but I'm all for the releasing of such powerful software to the net at large - it ups the chance of some prodigous types getting hold of it and doing some cool stuff in the future.
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everything has a huge freking ugly watermark on it
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Originally posted by Bobboau
everything has a huge freking ugly watermark on it
:wtf: If this is true its going right into the trash...
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Somehow I knew there was a catch...
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How big is the watermark? What's to stop you from making it so that the image is all in the top corner and then cropping it out?
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I suspect it also has a limited render resolution?
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640x480 I believe but I've seen renders smaller than that :)
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Originally posted by Bobboau
everything has a huge freking ugly watermark on it
I do not download things that put watermarks on my renders.
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I forgot about the Watermark. As I said, while Maya PLE is nearly a full version of Maya 5, it is a marketing tool/teaching tool for Alias|Wavefront to get more users to fork nearly 2000 bones for the full version 1 Seat license, and that's all it is. It will be useful for model making, but it does have that nasty watermark.
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let's just say it's a demo. you can't expect the exact retail version for nuts... And I think it's a really good move coming from them.
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if the water mark didn't cover the entire image I might be willing to use it
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Pfff. You can remove water-marks with some PS trickery.
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I'll stick with 3DS Max 4, I think. At least I've got the full version of that.
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Originally posted by an0n
Pfff. You can remove water-marks with some PS trickery.
Not these!
It will only render in 320x200 IIRC. I've been messing with it and I can't figure out how to import objects. Supposedly it will import DXF and a couple of 3DS files types, but I haven't figure it out yet and the help file is less than useless.
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Maya's a *****, I use it on linux. Once you figure the basics out it's not so bad though.
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Originally posted by Bobboau
if the water mark didn't cover the entire image I might be willing to use it
The entire image? Ouch...