So far for those that upgraded to maya2014, how did autodesk rolled up the "send to 3dsmax" option ? What is it like since you use maya2014, can you send a file back to max2013 ? im just asking out of pure curiosity. The new modeling tools are they worth the upgrade ?
I'm not even complaining about the Graphite tools, some of them are pretty damn useful - it's just that so little time and love was spent on integrating them, it's almost shocking. The redundancies you mentioned, the fact that you have another whole different set of hotkeys to work out in your options (on top of Edit Poly,…
Autodesk does hire QA that know what theyre doing but they have a multitude of jobs outside sitting around modeling to find bugs. I have very rarely submitted a bug report with my email and steps typed out intelligently that I have not received a direct answer or recognition of a bug from. Remember there is always the…
So I dont know how many guys study off from Autodesk student website, but they have all three programs there. Although; I am more interested in finding out about the student license, and what not. I mean this maya is going to last for a year if downloaded, or is it just free to use for students. Like softimage xsi is. It…
Yes, I think we understand each other now, 1) mayas tools for modeling have indeed come a long way but we still have a ways to go. Hopefully Bellsey can shed some light on how autodesk views the current implementation of the new modeling toolset. Will there be a team dedicated to working on it further? I certainly hope so!…
thats a nice tool option you should suggest it to autodesk. i'm not going to get into softimage vs maya or any such thing in this thread. but thanks for posting a concrete example. my point is that i don't consider having tools tied to the manip a feature. i like maya's manip better. to the extent i use some of the same…
Don't get me wrong I really enjoy using Maya as an overall application sometimes but the modeling tools are pretty far behind even still. And I think it suffers a bit from the well known 3DS Max issue where there's so much old legacy stuff that it's hard to figure out which tools are the most stable or efficient when you…
So after upgrading to 2014 I have to same I'm somewhat underwhelmed. The new features look great and indeed many of them are great (the crease set editor is very nice). But the modeling toolkit, the thing I was most excited about is so poorly integrated with the rest of maya that it really makes me want to jump over to…
I can't speak for others who cite 8.5 as the "sweet spot" but I can say that one of the main reasons my co worker says that it's great is simply because of the stability/features that worked. I agree, maya has made a lot of steps forward since 8.5 and some of the newer features I can't do without. But when those features…