Maya 8.5 3D now Universal

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.

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.........!

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.

Bring on AutoCAD - it's just rediculous that it's not on the mac still.

Autodesk should get it's efforts to port Autocad to the Mac for once.

Just wanted to note that Blender has had an intel version for quite awhile now. Nice of Maya to join the party. ^_^

Whubbsie,

I would highly recommend Cinema4D R10, it has a module called Clothilde which is brilliant and the application screams on a mac pro!

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.

Maya on the Mac always sucked pretty bad compared to the windows version. I hope they get it right with this one.

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...