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Autodesk announced Maya 8.5 yesterday, and for a .5 release it has a slew of new features that I am sure will delight 3D artists. The one feature that'll make Intel Mac users hearts beat a little faster is that Maya 8.5 is now a Universal Binary. It'll run on either PowerPC or Intel Macs, but I have to think that it will run much faster on Intel Macs (what doesn't, at native speeds?).Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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Matt M. said 3:46PM on 1-16-2007
Maya has been going steadily downhill since Autodesk took it over from Alias. But it is nice to know that the big graphics apps are going universal.
I'm still waiting for Flash 9.0...
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John P. said 3:54PM on 1-16-2007
Maya on the Mac always sucked pretty bad compared to the windows version. I hope they get it right with this one.
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Whubbsie said 4:15PM on 1-16-2007
So if Maya doesn't run that well on Mac what does? Been using Blender cos it free but would love something with cloth simulation in it.
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Lewis Cooper said 5:54PM on 1-16-2007
Whubbsie,
I would highly recommend Cinema4D R10, it has a module called Clothilde which is brilliant and the application screams on a mac pro!
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Extensor said 6:03PM on 1-16-2007
Just wanted to note that Blender has had an intel version for quite awhile now. Nice of Maya to join the party. ^_^
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autoy said 6:52PM on 1-16-2007
Autodesk should get it's efforts to port Autocad to the Mac for once.
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Russell said 12:46AM on 1-17-2007
Bring on AutoCAD - it's just rediculous that it's not on the mac still.
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Whubbsie said 10:03PM on 1-16-2007
Lewis Cooper,
Thanks for the info mate.
Extensor is right Blender has had an intel version for ages, runs great too... specially for something that cost absolutly nothing.
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Chickenfriednice said 3:38PM on 1-17-2007
Maya on a Mac is much more stable from my experience. Ive been using it since release 1.0 on a silicon graphics box and the PC versions have aways casued me problems. I agree that Autodesk are doing a pretty average job since take over, let just hope this release is a goodun. Oh and bring on the 64 bit version for OS 10.5 please.........!
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Rupert said 10:33AM on 1-21-2007
Guys, comparing Blender and Cinema 4D to Maya is absurd. Maya is THE 3D app, and everyone, PC users included, have been freaked out since Autodesk/discreet bought Alias.
Having a native binary for intel is definitely a good thing, and no, contrary to what one user posted, Maya/OS X is not inferior in any way to Maya/Windows or Maya/linux. Alias did a fantastic job.
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