Maya 6 is in beta
 

I just got an email from Jerry at (cant give link here) that he is an official beta tester and will be receiveg his copy very soon. wich means Maya 6 soon.:eek:

or 5.5

no Maya 6

This was in the body
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But now the good news:

I became an official ALIAS-Beta-Tester! ;)

This means I'll receive a copy of MAYA 6.0 Beta very soon and those nice people at ALIAS told me:
'There will be a lot of hot/cool/useful and new stuff within ALIAS MAYA 6!"
So for your advantage I will check/explore and explain those new features in MAYA 6 concerning Mental-Ray-Rendering and
using default mr-shaderes within Maya!

This means the DVD you'll get is not outdated when MAYA 6 hits the market!

I am currently in close contact to the ALIAS-Beta-Team and the Mental Ray product manager and maybe I could tell you exclusive
about some new 'maya/mental-ray-translator' features even if MAYA 6.0 won't be out at that time!

So this MAYA-Beta-Tester-Case makes the DVD more and more complex and up to date!

Maybe it will be more stable during rendering

Maybe, not talking about 4.5 but with 5.0 I'v found MentalRay more stable.. Mayas software render seems to have a memory leak for me.. get off 2 renders and I get ram flags all over the place.. But not with the MentalRay part. But thin I haven't rendered a lot with MR.

6 already!!! they're churning out these new versions faster than I can download the PLE's!

I'm still more than happy with 4.5.

omg!!,.. not again,... I just got Maya 5.0!!!... :eek:

4.0 is by far the best IMHO...
but i cannot wiat to see if they improve maya's connection to MR.
and maybe FASTER SubDs for crying out loud geez.
i also hope there is a linux version of 6.0:beer:


keep up posted 3djoe

YesI have inside info as well that Maya 6 will be out in 1Q of 2004.
Mental Ray is VERY nicely integrated now :-)

i finally got 4 and dont even know what mental ray is.

i heard there was a port of brazil in the works for maya, i hope they don't sratch that since 6.0 is coming out.
i wonder what the upgrade price will be.....??? ppl have just begining to upgrade to 5.0, will they go and pay for another release...

I heard about Brazil as well....don't know if it will be ready for 6?

Yeah, with the speed at which they're turning out upgrades, are they going to be free or do we have to drop an extra $400 every time they fix something?

Drop the $ mate.Nothing is free.