Anyone on here start out using swift? It's a bit buggy and lacks a lot of the powerful tools but it's kind of fun. Also i saw that maya uses the ravix vector render engine as well. What do you guys think of this little program? I've had it for a while but never really got into 3d till recently. Since i started studying maya in a class I've been having fun messing about with swift again. I don't have maya on my home computer and I've been doing some bits for my class in swift hoping to import them into maya for tweaking and rendering. Anyone ever experiment with that?

To be honest never herd of it I dont think you will find meny on this site that have used it but I could be wrong............dave

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If your looking for something to play with at home you might want to try blender https://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

It's 100 times the app and its free.

Dave

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wow blender looks amazing. thanks.

From what I've heard (and my very very brief play around), blender has a very very different UI from maya. Do you not think it might be quite frustrating to try to learn maya and blender concurrently? If you're a student, and it sounds like you are, you can get an educational version of maya free for home from autodesks education site.

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https://students.autodesk.com/

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thanks next I'm aware of that but I'm only running osx 10.4 with a gig of ram at the moment...

Maya should still run on those specs. Install the trial to be sure.

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yes the blender ui is really different.

2011 installer wont even launch. I wonder how far back i need to go.

Anyone on here start out using swift?

Originally Posted by kvnmcwebn

I did!!

when I was 16 or so. Super simple and easy as to use, I could figure everything out (or so i think) without having to read any instructions.

but yeah, it's not a strong tool, but I thought it was cool back then because I could make 3D stuff for flash. I didn't really know about any other 3D software because I never had anyone to tell me about such things.

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Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D

I started out using anim8or... very awesome (I thought at the time) but very frustrating and limited when I tried it after using maya for a bit.

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I will also add that being limited as it was, nothing I picked up from it transfered to Maya or helped in learning Maya. So... it's a total waste of time to use unless you want something super simple to stick into flash.

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Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D

yeah exactly.

but I just want to be able to model on my mac at home. Looks like i might have to go back to like maya 2008 to do so.