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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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# 1 11-03-2004 , 07:05 AM

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Hi,

I have a mac G4, and I'm going to get a PC. I was woundering what do I do about maya being only for mac? I'm not going to spend another $2,000 on maya. Is there a way I can take maya 4.5 complete for mac back and get the pc version?

Any input on this would be great!

P.S.
Oh and the reason I'm getting a pc is because I want to upgrad to a more powerful computer, it take way to long to render on my mac which is a Dual 867 MHz. And that new Power mac G5 is $3,000 big ones! The pc I'm getting, which is $1,500, has 2.8GHz, do you guys think that would make any differents when it come to rendering?

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# 2 11-03-2004 , 03:20 PM

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Have you asked Alias?

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# 3 11-03-2004 , 10:18 PM

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Alias will transfer the license for $150.

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# 4 11-03-2004 , 10:30 PM

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I just called alias, and to get the pc verson I will have to buy a new maya program, which will cost $1,000! And that mean taking back my mac version and trading it for the pc version + $1,000!

dannyngan,

$150? For me it's going to be $1,000! Hum...

I have (maya complete 4.5)

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# 5 12-03-2004 , 05:08 PM

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bummer

I wonder if a mac registration is the same as a PC.

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# 6 12-03-2004 , 07:28 PM

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Licensing is pretty much the same for Mac and Windows versions of Maya. The software is nodelocked to a specific hardware ID, so you can't simply reinstall on another machine. You need to go through Alias to get a new authorization code.

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