Maya Free Download

[AH_Viper]

They are offering a free download to all students:

Maya Personal Learning Edition now available for Maya Complete 5

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

You fill in a form that asks for your name and email then you download it and you get a key to your email.

Not sure if this is new but I always thought Maya was something you bought so never really looked into it.

EDIT:: Just copy and paste link, it dont seem to be working propper for some reason

EDIT2:: Wait, fixed it :)

[The Dark Elf]

Maya PLE is a cut down learning version.. It's no way the full one, trust me on this :)

PLE is just to learn on, it has limits but there's more than enough there to learn with, so people don't have any excuse to pirate it

And yeah its kinda old news, Maya PLE has been around quite a while

[ukfilmer]

yeah, i dont know the limitations but i know renders get watermarked. should be fine for hl2 stuff though :) and learning obviously, hence learning edition :D

[Dalith]

I downloaded the Maya PLE like a week ago, and I can say I like Maya much more than 3Ds max and Lightwave(I've used those ones).

It's just easier for me, so I'm actually considering buying Maya 5. :thumbs:

[ukfilmer]

:| do you have £5000?

[The Dark Elf]

:| do you have £5000?
ukfilmer. If he actually wants to be legal and pay for it like a grown up and be respected by other Maya users who will then make an effort to help him learn instead of giving his details to Alias. Don't put him off.

Ta!

[Pendragon]

Maya PLE is a cut down learning version.. It's no way the full one, trust me on this
Wrong--PLE is a full version of Maya Complete 5.0, only with a different format (not importable into regular Maya, as I recall), watermarks and different license.

[The Dark Elf]

Wrong--PLE is a full version of Maya Complete 5.0, only with a different format (not importable into regular Maya, as I recall), watermarks and different license.
*looks at his fully licenced and paid for Maya 5 Unlimited*

You sure its not a learning version? :) I see no watermarks or limits on my full version..

[Pendragon]

From the Alias website: (http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/faq.shtml)Maya Personal Learning Edition has all of the main features that the commercial version of Maya has. This means that users can create the same high quality content as they can with Maya. The watermark is the primary means of preventing them from using that content commercially and thus not having to purchase Maya.

[The Dark Elf]

From the Alias website: (http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/faq.shtml)
Exactly my point, its not the full version, you can't do anything commercial with it. So its not a full version

You pay for the licence to use it for commercial work, hence full version

[Pendragon]

Which is why I qualified my statement with the rest of the sentence.