Maya Personal Edition up for download
by Pat Wilson · in Artist Corner · 02/27/2002 (9:06 am) · 1 replies
www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Tmpl/Maya/html/index.jhtml?page=/en/Community/Special/...
I think this is an answer to gmax, it looks like their site is getting hit pretty hard at the moment. I'm sure making an exporter is probably against some licence agreement, the DMCA or something like that, but then again, what isn't.
I think this is an answer to gmax, it looks like their site is getting hit pretty hard at the moment. I'm sure making an exporter is probably against some licence agreement, the DMCA or something like that, but then again, what isn't.
About the author
Associate Logan Foster
perPixel Studios
The problem with Maya Personal Edition is that its just a tool to learn Maya. You cannot use any commercial plugins with it (nor add plugins to it), the file format is not compatible with regular Maya, there is a blatent watermark in the render results and in the viewport (quite annoying to work around), and there are also other limitations to it.
There is a review article located at of Maya PLE at www.cgchannel.com/feature.php?article_id=25 if anyone is curious.
If you want to legally learn how to use one of the high end pro 3D programs out there, its well worth the 150mb download, but I can't see it being any use to Torque projects. You are likely better off with ordering a free 30 day trial version of Maya in my opinion.
SoftImage has also hopped onto the bandwagon and is offering a free version of XSI more information about this can be found at www.softimage.com/Products/xsi/v2/ExperienceCD/
After looking at the free solutions from the big three (Alias|Wavefront, Discreet, and SoftImage), gMax really is the best solution done thus far.
Logan