Maya 2011 press release
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New UI revealed. :poly124:
http://www.motionmedia.com/blog/autodesk%C2%AE-maya%C2%AE-2011-announced/
Can't wait to play around with this.
http://www.motionmedia.com/blog/autodesk%C2%AE-maya%C2%AE-2011-announced/
Can't wait to play around with this.
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how many years since the last change of the maya GUI ?
Aye, they could at the very least hire on the dRaster guy(s) and have them implement their modeling tools into the system as staff of autodesk. Or something of the nature..:\
Ah well I forgot, it's Autodesk: "we got our priorities right!(tm)"
I didn't see a mention of QT in the press release but I'd heard that's what they wanted to use and were working on for Maya 2010, so I assume they just finalised that integration.
I imagine they just wanted to re-skin it to make it seem really artist-friendly (and funnily enough makes it look more like Modo, XSI or new Blender), since historically Maya has always looked like it was thrown together by programmers who couldn't care less about ergonomics. Maybe this facelift will entice more users in who might otherwise have shunned Maya, so it's probably a fairly smooth marketing move.
Not that I'm against skinning by default and it kinda looks neat too.But it's just waaaaaay down on the priorities list imho. e.g. better tools / more stability make me work faster. Different shaped and colored buttons....? And unless they reshuffle buttons and clean up the menues it won't improve ergonomics much either except reduce eye strain. But for that you don't need to implement a whole skinning system.
Mind you, I found the whole skinning thing in C4D also rather useless. In the end I'm more annoyed when every app has its own way of dealing with UI elements rather than sticking to a system wide unified look where UI elements behave the same in all apps. I'm looking at you Lightwave! ...and you ZBrush, and you XSI, and you Modo, and you Bryce (why did you have to start this trend Bryce?) !!!!
That's where OS X shines - almost all apps, except crappy windows ports, stick to a certain way of handling their UI and menues. I like that. Personally I'd rather skin the whole OS than each app independently...but that's just me I guess
I am looking forward to seeing 2011 in action, but as with any feature-laden release I'm sure some things are too good to be true (and/or too buggy to be used for another version or two).
Here how it look in 2011
http://area.autodesk.com/maya2011
Wait i will upload it...
Thanks for the post gaganjain!
http://area.autodesk.com/products
They added it 10 min ago
*shifts uncomfortably*
Also, when Maya 2012 comes out, I am going to laugh at the irony.
EDIT: http://area.autodesk.com/maya2011 video 4, does it really take 10 seconds to load in a sword? That's a bit much.
Are the Maya 2011 videos not loading for anyone else? I can't watch the new UI feature video.
Looks even more cluttered and busy than original windows-based interface...
Yeah, what can I say, of all the things I could whine about..
what was it before?
hoping that includes mo post process shader support, nicer shadows and Direct X intergrated into viewports?
detailed feature list.
some stuff sounds really really neat
Finally! Most people are still using yee-old MJ Polytools for this, and I made a version myself a few months back sense didn't want to have to use a plugin for it. Will be interesting to see how well this compares to existing scripts.
So will we finally be able to do insets on complex selections? Either way, this is another much needed addition.
Also glad to hear about the dockable UI stuff.
Hopeful
They are dead since the maya 2009 version
Addition to Maya, besides its UI and new Dual quaternion skinning, the rest are not so impressive.. And now max got hypershade. I wonder how stable maya's gonna be with this new UI but old core. Urm.. maybe we need to wait till service pack is out.
Hmm, based on observation I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Autodesk is and has been shifting XSI's features into maya, and eventually provide 3ds and maya as the two ultimate packages for the industry. I maybe wrong, it's just my observation.
P.S I'm working amongst a bunch of longtime XSI users and even they haven't seen any improvement in XSI, and claim that a bunch of it's modeling tools have been integrated into maya ever since Autodesk got hold of both.
Max had this problem for a long time with DX shader display, it just always reloaded all the textures even if it didn't need to.
I watched the skinning video and was very impressed. It's come a long way.
The updates to the modelling and selection tools will be very handy. Generally this looks like the release I've been waiting about 5 years for
qt designer video
QT designer looks nice...
Very very happy
Seriously can't wait to get my hands on this, I imagine it's similar to what they're talking about for the Max UI overhaul, it's just done sooner
That would be great if the script Editor becomes mo useful.