kogakure’s Story
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So, long story short...
kogakure made the mistake of
buying a licence of Alias Maya
My Advice to You is
to look first for OpenSource solutions
Here's the whole story
I bought a licence of "Alias Maya Complete" for my PC sometime in 2003. This was a node-lock licence (can only be used on a specific machine).
In 2005 I switched to a Mac. Alias didn't allow me to transfer the licence on my new machine. I had to Upgrade to the next version. Well. Done.
In 2005 Autodesk bought Alias. So all Support was gone… Fine.
In Oktober 2007 I bought OS X 10.5 "Leopard". I put my CD in and the Maya installer told me: "This version of Maya runs only on Mac OSX 10.3-10.4". F####g bastards.
Well, Autodesk allowed me to sell my licence, but it will cost 200$ to transfer the licence. And who would buy such an old software, now Alias is gone? No one.
So that's:
Buying a licence of "Alias Maya Complete 5": 2.500 $
Buying educational software/books: 400 $
Buying an Upgrade to switch platform: 1.100 $
Being an idiot for not using "blender": PRICELESS
Comments (4)
Has anyone come up with any open source 3d software?
It's blender (http://blender.org). It's as good as Maya, 3ds max … And it's free (GNU). Available for Windows, Linux x86-32, Mac OS X, Linux PPC, Solaris, FreeBSD and Irix. It's based on Python. Good tutorials, screencasts and with YafRay a good Global Illumination RayTracer.
I used to use Bryce. lol.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to give 3d another go around.
I remember working up a Matrix style Chess movie in Bryce 3d freshman year.. those were the days.