Alias introduces Maya 6 - No Unlimited for OS X Again!

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• Reply 1 of 8

  hmurchison Posts: 12,423member

  April 18, 2004 9:47PM

  That kinda sucks. What's the holdup? Not that I'll ever use Maya Unlimited but still it doesn't look good that we don't have it for OSX.
• Reply 2 of 8

  thunderpoit Posts: 709member

  April 18, 2004 10:02PM

  sorry if this is an obvious question, ive never used the program, but whats the major differences between complete and unlimited?
• Reply 3 of 8

  jimzip Posts: 446member

  April 18, 2004 10:12PM

  All the cool features are in Unlimited.. Complete users get kinda shafted because when it comes to things like Maya's Fluid effects, cloth and fur/hair, there's none of that in Complete..
  
  It's a shame. Alias has to get their act together.
  
  Although, I can't competely blame them.. Apparently ATi cards don't like Maya very much and Alias said that you get a huge performance boost if you have an Nvidia card.. Now this may be just marketing, but also when I used Maya it was very slow and clunky.. I'm running an ATi 64MB.. Apple needs to start bundling pro graphics cards with their machines.. I mean, top of the line pro graphics, not what Apple says are pro graphics. Because they're usually the midrange ones..
  
  
  
  Jimzip
• Reply 4 of 8

  tuttle Posts: 301member

  April 19, 2004 2:37AM

  This is really good news.
  
  
  
  It is now a Mach-O app. This bodes well for people writing plugins. If the development SDK now works with Xcode the number of native OS X plugins should dramatically increase.
• Reply 5 of 8

  jimzip Posts: 446member

  April 19, 2004 7:12AM

  No, you don't understand. It's potentially good news, but at current, it's definetely bad news. There's not going to be another significant upgrade to Maya now for another year, and so Mac users once again get the shaft. That means that with no Unlimited option, consumers will feel threatened because the company isn't offering all that it offers on the other platform.. People will definetely want to go with the platform that doesn't leave them with insecurities such as the prospect of not having proper support, or the uncertainty that the company may pull the package entirely from the Mac platform. Consumers will predominantly go for Microsoft Windows.
  
  Sheesh, you'd think Alias could just add the damn plugins or get off their as$es and port the whole thing. It's so lazy.
  
  
  
  Jimzip
• Reply 6 of 8

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  April 19, 2004 9:50AM

  Has anybody actually emailed Alias and asked about this? It could be as simple as the Unlimited version is simply delayed currently... for one reason or another.
• Reply 7 of 8

  rok Posts: 3,519member

  April 19, 2004 9:57AM

  Quote:
  

  
  Originally posted by LoCash
  
  Has anybody actually emailed Alias and asked about this? It could be as simple as the Unlimited version is simply delayed currently... for one reason or another.
  

  
  

  
  
  silly boy. it's much easier to wail and moan and beat our breasts against the rising tide of injustice. far more drama. way more chicks.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  but on a serious note, i have to think that maya will eventually have no choice but bring the farm to mac os x, what with all the friggin updates and strides apple has made in, what, the last week? apple just needs to release dual 3GHz G5's by end of summer as promised, and apple will really tie the other competitors to the whipping post and go to town.
• Reply 8 of 8

  onlooker Posts: 5,252member

  April 19, 2004 2:39PM

  Quote:
  

  
  Originally posted by Tuttle
  
  This is really good news.
  
  
  
  It is now a Mach-O app. This bodes well for people writing plugins. If the development SDK now works with Xcode the number of native OS X plugins should dramatically increase.
  

  
  

  
  
  That is really cool news, but some folks are still pretty upset that there is nno unlimited yet.