Is it Possible? Maya 5 on sonyTR ?

I’m asking because the videocard might be to slow for it ?

http://www.alias.com

Does anyone have experience with this software ?

Anyone can download the personal version and see if it works.
I’m making a buying desicion on this so .. it’s important for me

Thanks in advance of your help

Well, a loaded TR does seem to meet the minimum hardware requirements except for the hardware accelerated OpenGL. The Intel Extreme Graphics 2 does support OpenGL but not fully. Only portions of hardware is accelerated with many functions only implemented in software. Also, the graphics driver may not be fully compliant.

At any rate, I don’t know if you want to buy a TR if you’re going to be using Maya 5 regularly.

I don’t use Maya, but 3DS Max 6 runs like a charm. I’m really happy Discreet realeased the 30 day demo. Maybe Alias has convinced them to be more competitive. Now if they would only work on a decent price..

You’ll want to max out the RAM if you are doing any heavy graphics work (or any intense IO work). A useful trick (if you use Photoshop)  is to take 512 MB (or half of your installed RAM) and turn it into a RAM disk - assigning it a letter. (RamDiskXP works nicely) Make that the primary scratch disk for Photoshop and you’ll notice the speed benefits immediately.  The Toshiba or Hitachi drives would then be your secondary scratch disks..

Emi ^_^

The file crashes Maya Personal Learning Edition. It complains that the file contains nodes created with Maya Unlimited or with plug-ins unavailable in Maya Personal Learning Edition. When you try to remove the nodes or skip the step it hangs the application requiring you to force it to quit.

So, it’s not testing well right now… :(

Ok, I figured out how to import it into Maya 5 PLE without it crashing. I’m trying to figure out the interface so i can do a test render. The interface is very slow though especially when you turn on shading modes. The wireframe mode seems ok.

I’ll play around with it some more but it’s not the greatest experience so far.

Yeah, I wonder if the unlimited version is better than the PLE version (which seems somewhat limited). At any rate, I’d say it’s usable but I’m no expert. It just seems somewhat sluggish to me.

Cool thanks for testing
I render in 14 sec for the first frame ( camera1)

and the viewpoint is quite responsive about 20 fps

I have 3 ghz ht with 1gb ram and gforce4 4200ti 128 mb

It looks like maya would be usable for me, I don’t do to much scene’s with lots of polygons.

yes I’m sorry I use maya 5 not personal, so files might not be exangable?

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