You don't have to buy a license for Autodesk products! Just head over to http://students.autodesk.com/ Hit Register in the upper right corner, fill out the form and choose Unemployed. Continue to step 2, 3 and confirm your email. Now you're able to download legal any software you want for free. Of course for personal use…
More like a religious war. 3DS Max is probably the most widely used game making tool. Autodesk has been positioning it for that use for some time. Maya, also owned by Autodesk, would be second. Everyone else runs at the back of the pack in the race. Respinning the question ... pros ... what is the main 3D tool in your…
I think you can still purchase Soft as part of the Entertainment Creation Suite, but if you want an old version of XSI (pre-Autodesk), then no, you can't buy one. It's kinda worthless now, as there's no way to generate licenses anyway. Autodesk stopped support of the older versions a while back and warned people at the…
if it's a recent version of maya then it may be related to their 'customer involvement' tool, something that talks to autodesk whenever you close down the app. causes a not-so-brief hang after clicking exit from what i've seen. perhaps in your case it triggers something else?…
Hi all, So I have a quick question for you all. So I'm using the Student Version of Autodesk Maya, and I was wondering if that's okay to stream on websites such as Twitch? I know it might sound like a silly question, but I have no idea if Autodesk or Twitch would have an issue with it, but my guess is that both of the…
As a long time user and subscriber i think that now is the time to consider giving blender another chance! They are so proud of the new features : An advanced wood map(put attention on the word advanced) OSL shading language and a shape boolean! I am mesmerize Autodesk... Also they develop a plugin to facilitate workflow…
There is a new tutorial video for Maya on the new Bonus Tools; Extrude and Preserve UVs. The video is one in a set of films on the Bonus Tools for Maya by Steven Roselle. He is one of the on-staff artists at Autodesk who specializes in Maya and games. He's often the one that Autodesk sends out to directly talk to the…
Darth Vader Photoshoot Hy everyone wanted to share this project i made a while ago, the character was modeled in Autodesk Maya , sculpted in Zbrush, textured in Photoshop in combination with Mudbox and later added extra dirt details in Substance Painter, capes were simulated in Marvelous Designer and then refined in…
i know i might sound repetitive, but if you really can't stand the caddies and want the old toolwindows back in Edit Poly, just try my caddyless Edit Poly recompiles for Max 2011, 2012 and 2013.…