R.I.P Maya PLE

claydough

perhaps it's just hidden now?
however, the area PLE forum is down as well?

ElysiumGX

Perhaps it has silently gone the way of Gmax. PLE was never really useful. I saw it as only an introduction to Maya's interface.

Mark Dygert

Really the free 30 day demo's cover the usefulness of PLE & GMax pretty well without out the annoying limitations... Also its not like they're entirely clueless about the software being hacked by would-be users and people learning.

sir-knight

yeah I think it's a quiet "we'll let you do the back of the truck thing if we know you'll buy it eventually anyways to do real work"

Lee3dee

yeah I noticed it was gone too, when a friend asked me if there was a maya demo to use to learn. Autodesk killed the ple, sad day

rebb

Well you can tell him that there is now a 30 day trial with no watermarks and limitations.

rooster

im pretty annoyed i had to buy a commercial version of mudbox just to putter around in