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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Oct 17th at 5:02pm 2003

For those of you who haven't seen this yet, there is now a free version of Maya 5!

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031015005537&newsLang=en

http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/index.shtml

Check it out.

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Fri Oct 17th at 5:09pm 2003

That looks cool I d give it a try if my pc could handle it [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Fri Oct 17th at 6:47pm 2003

ah, cool. for a while there they didn't have one available online. although you could still get the PLE that came with UT2k3, since it's what you use to make static meshes for that game. I'll probably stick with the version 4 I have since I can't download that on 56k anyway



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Posted by mazemaster on Fri Oct 17th at 7:25pm 2003

I like max's polymodeling tools better.



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Posted by Edge Damodred on Fri Oct 17th at 8:31pm 2003

Max is better for modeling, but texturing Maya is a lot better. Hope the plugin for UT2k3 gets updated for it soon. [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Oct 17th at 8:35pm 2003

is there a free version of 3DSMax? [addsig]



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Posted by Hornpipe2 on Fri Oct 17th at 9:22pm 2003

Sort of. You can get G-Max, which is a cut-down version of 3ds max used for modeling (it won't render). Plugins still work for it, I think, so you can export your models in the HL format and such. [addsig]



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Posted by Edge Damodred on Fri Oct 17th at 9:44pm 2003

You can't directly export to HL models, you have to use the Q3 plugin, export as a .mdl3, then take it into Milkshape and convert it to HL. [addsig]



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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Oct 17th at 11:22pm 2003

Is there a plugin for that free maya that can at least lead to a conversion to HL .mdls? [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Sat Oct 18th at 12:49am 2003

Gmax sucks and there is no free version of max unfortunately. The educational version is not too bad to come by if you know the right people though.



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Posted by Loco on Sat Oct 18th at 7:27am 2003

Agreed. Maya good. G-Max bad. Never tried 3DSMax though - Supposed to be quite difficult to handle. It's all very well saying that MS3D will work, but that costs money and with all that activation it's a pain when you're reformatting every five minutes.

According to the HL2 SDK FAQ (acronym heaven) there will be a plugin for Maya to export to HL2 models. Don't know about HL1 .mdl files though. [addsig]




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