Give Blender a chance. Yes, regular Maya is far ahead of it, but Maya LT? Personally I'd love to see Blender succeed (same as I love to see open 3D and graphics formats to succeed). I think Blender is pretty close to be an alternative for some studios, so it wouldn't hurt if some people actually start using it.
I think the advantage that Maya LT offers over Blender at the moment is that you don't have to deal with the little issues. The smoothing group problems, import export difficulties etc aren't as big of a problem in Maya LT because the game engines test their pipelines against Maya/Max. Plus you get ShaderFX support and…
Just thought I'd add that not being able to use plugins breaks the CryEngine pipeline for Maya LT (and maybe other engines with Maya exporters). If attracting indie devs are what AD is after it might do to have a list of plugins/scripts that are allowed and disable custom script support. Cynically speaking, this just seems…
It's better to learn Blender or modo. Autodesk got arrogant to the point beyond any imagination. I'm eagrly await day that something kick them in the butt.
I'm curious what Autodesk's arguments would be to convince indies to use Maya LT versus let's say Blender, given that it's free and doesn't have certain restrictions? I have to say I'm not an indie. I mostly work on AAA stuff. However if I'd make my own small game I would seriously consider blender, just because of the…
@electricsauce Maya has a mirror geometry feature other than duplicate special, but duplicate special should no longer flip normals; I think it was fixed in Maya 2014 or 2013. Maya's modeling efficiency comes largely from it's patented marking menus. But strangely it seems most paid tutorials rarely use the marking menus.…
Curious if LT will ever have, or if it does have - maybe I don't know about it - a texture painting mode similar to what blender has. Which I think is pretty amazing. I would definitely use it if it was available. thanks B.
If I was mobile dev I would probably be using Blender just cut off costs entirely. I agree about sciprting. Is not even about I will be writing plugins. It's about I won't be able to use plugins that others have wrote.