All Free Downloads: Autodesk Maya 2009

Maya� Complete integrates the world’s foremost modeling, animation, visual effects, and advanced
rendering technologies into one complete workflow solution. That’s why film and video artists,
game developers, visualization professionals, Web and print designers and —3D enthusiasts everywhere—
turn to Maya to take their work to the next level.

Features

Create breathtaking 3D content with Autodesk� Maya� 8 software. With
Maya 8, Autodesk demonstrates its commitment to meeting the demands of
next-generation productions. The new release addresses the fundamental
challenges Maya customers are facing today–and those they expect to face
in the future.

Key New Features & Enhancements

64-bit Release (Windows and Linux platforms)

Maya 8 marks the first full release of Maya with both 32-bit and 64-bit
(Windows� and Linux�) executables. It allows you to address considerably
more memory than you could in the past, enabling you to handle larger and
more complex scenes than ever before.

Performance

Maya 8 has been optimized to provide superior performance across many
areas of the software, both through algorithmic speedups and scalable multi-
threading to take advantage of the latest generation of workstations.

Transfer Polygon Attributes

A new Transfer Polygon Attributes feature allows you to transfer UV, color
per vertex (CPV) and vertex position information between surface meshes of
differing topologies. This proves particularly useful when working with two
different versions of an object/character (e.g., one high resolution and one
low resolution). You could then transfer existing UV sets that have already
been laid out to the lower resolution model. The feature also lets you create
a “shrink-wrap” effect as they transfer vertex positions from one model to
another.