WHA?!?!?!?!? MAYA 8.5?!?
 

what the heck!!!!!!! maya 8 just came out and now maya 8.5!?!??! NOES I BOUGHT MAYA 8 lol....


not soo FAST autodesk lol.

No one says you have to upgrade every time a new version comes out. Stick with what you have and get your work done.

Yea i know lol i just like knowing i have the newest maya ;)

but i am not going to upgrade for awhile.

im gonna stick with mine, maya 7 lol.

also saw this about maya 8.5, quote: "Autodesk Maya 8.5 supports Intel Macs"

we got it today in work and now I have to speand a week learning ncloth - oh what a hard job I got. :p

They kept this very quite I must say.

Going thought the docs there are alot of improvements thought,

What really is Ncloth?

mayas new poly based cloth sim - works abit more like the way syflex works i think

link

Do you like it?

and how does it work for you?

I'm on your boat marlon at these rates I"m a 7 man for a little bit.

... i finally started using maya 8 last week. ive been using maya 5 for a LONG time... i think i didnt stop using maya 4 untill maya 6.5 came out....

ahaha graphiac, feel free to come aboard :p anyone welcome, lol.

" i finally started using maya 8 last week. ive been using maya 5 for a LONG time... i think i didnt stop using maya 4 untill maya 6.5 came out...."

im using maya 7 and i reckon i will be using it for another 5 years lol. dont like to change programs even if there a little bit the different. i dont know why i bought maya 4.5 bible book though, and maya 6 for windows ... lol

We keep switching in work. I started in sept on 7, then 8 and now 8.5. The main resions = 64bit versons of the softwear and ncloth.

But at home it took me ages to get the money for Maya7 and I cant afford the updates. My boss got me a licance for my laptop but thats only because I`m trying to learn cloth (be it syflex or ncloth) but I`ll lose it when we hire more animators in about a months time.

I love alot of the changes autodesk have made, and best of all they don`t interfere with my workflow only improve it.

I`m loving ncloth it works alot like (but faster than) syflex but there is just not explain how to use very well. The help pages keeps jumpimg to other pages explaning about one thing then stops and you have to go back and find the page you came from.- very hard to follow.

Think I`m going to save up and grab 9 when it comes out, if they dont release it in like 4 months that is.

man i was excited when i got 64bit windows cd original. then i find out 90% literally of my stuff does not work on it...

"Think I`m going to save up and grab 9 when it comes out, if they dont release it in like 4 months that is."

hope its a long time lol, imagen it comes out this year ;)

just wondering also, where bouts you work?

Cool where do you work tunes?

yea i am going to save up for a new computer and then get the adobe video bundle and then get maya 9 lol... i have a way to go i am only 15 almost 16 :)

you must have a high allowance to afford buying Maya 8..........

Nope it only cost $365 and i dont have an allowance lol. I work for it :(

I`m working for a new company called "AIFX" down in dartford uk. (near London). My boss set up a games company and had 3 smallish hits with them (dont ask me what they were i have no idea) and then was asked if he could do a trailer for someone. He then got the idea of doing a movie.

In sept 06 me and another were hired to make a teck demo of what could be done, and in Nov it blow the intvester away. In march we will be expanding.

heres a vary bad website but it has a copy of the teck-demo on it.


www.andalus.tv

Currently I have mad 8 main characters 5 secondary charaters and 3 background characters with multi body part (so they can look different but only need 1 rig) and created 32 ses of cloths as well as weapons, items people are holding. I dont have to uv map, texture or rig them (thats what the other girl does) so that helps.


where the hell you getting your maya from ????

Think that might be the student licence

Haven.t heard of a student license... I've only seen Unlimited, Complete and Personal Learning Edition. So can I get a link, please?

Think you might need to get in contact with your reseller to get a price quote, as you need to prove that your either a education establishment (school, college, uni etc) or your a student.

There used to be links to a price, but it was on resellers sites not via alias/autodesk direct.

http://www.studica.com/


Great site.

that quite a lucky turn of events for the company

good job:beer:


i myself am i maya seven man always was and always will be i dont want all this new crap when im still learning polygons;) :p

you and I both I'm still working some really basic projects and those are coming along but coming along slowly at that.

I prefer maya 7 I had maya 8 but there wasn't much difference and i really didn't like it for some reason I went back to 7

same with cheesly. tried maya 8 didnt like it went back to 7.0. I dont know why they keep making new versions though nowadays with so many plugins out there especially at highend3d.com I dont really see a need for newer versions at this rate.

Get a Platinum account at Autodesk and get all the up dates for free and monthly DVD downloads for a full year.

I don't suppose you take on gap year students or do apprenticeships? :p I can't find anyone who does!

I have Maya 7 and I think I'm going to stick with it for the next 4 years! I don't think many Universities upgrade their software that frequently, so when I go I'll probably be using version 6 :p