Anyone got any instructions or help on making a personal copy of Maya PLE run portably?
Thanks in advance.
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"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Maya is a well known 3D modeling software that was originally owned by Alias. It was bought out by Autodesk a year or so ago and fortunately Autodesk kept the PLE version available for us average people whom don't have a spare couple of grand kicking around. But, although I have not checked, if Autodesk have played with it as this is now at 8.5 (was at 7 if I remember correctly, before they took over) it will rely heavily on registry entries etc like all other Autodesk software.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7635018
Stick with Blender and support opensource!
Dell XPS M1530 Laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz
4GB Ram
256MB GeForce 8600M GT
Oh well.
Guess I'll stick to Blender for most things.
But poking around in Maya is. fun. It can still do a lot of things that aren't in Blender yet (or are but aren't so fast yet).
Q: What do agnostic, insomniac dyslexics do at night?
A: Stay awake and wonder if there's a dog.
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you better pray blender didnt hear you say that
I don't think they'd be that bothered - Blender has existed for far less time, and has gained features much faster. Blender can, and may well, supercede Maya within a few years. If a feature works better in Maya, it's only because no-one has yet contributed something of that quality. But there's a lot more people working on improving Blender than there are working on Maya. It's inevitable.
Q: What do agnostic, insomniac dyslexics do at night?
A: Stay awake and wonder if there's a dog.
I don't like sites that require my personal information to download free software.
Why do they need my name and address if the software is free?
They don't seem to have noticed that their database recently gained a Mr. Fakey McFaux of Scamsville.
Hmmm...
Q: What do agnostic, insomniac dyslexics do at night?
A: Stay awake and wonder if there's a dog.
You can put anything you like. They don't send an email link like most. Its just to spam you a little with their products. Put anything in then it will put you on the download page. At least it did last time I downloaded from the site.
Dell XPS M1530 Laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz
4GB Ram
256MB GeForce 8600M GT
I went to www.blender.org. On the front page I clicked "Download Now" (in the upper right corner) and it sent me to this site:
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
It didn't ask me for info at all.
In fact I'm thinking of making it portable if no one complains they want to do it first. All that needs to be done is file structure redone and custom launcher programmed. Other than that it keeps all configuration local with no registry entries (except for the Windows default "Last Run Application" but that happens no matter what.
Somebody's delusional. I'm not going to say who but I think they know who they are ;),
SAM
What's a signature?
A Portable Blender, that could be interesting.
Check here https://portableapps.com/node/9159.
Quote: 'It didn't ask me for info at all.' Nobody mentioned that Blender required that in this thread. That relates to Maya PLE for which the thread is actually regarding.
Check here https://portableapps.com/node/10006#comment-55741.
Dell XPS M1530 Laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz
4GB Ram
256MB GeForce 8600M GT
"I don't like sites that require my personal information to download free software."
I thought he was talking about the Blender software. I was mistaken. BTW thanks for the links which led me to http://www.tanisthalon-vizualized.net/downloads/.
I really enjoy WINK. Its been a while since I've seen it around. I thought the project was completely discontinued.
SAM
What's a signature?