Autodesk Maya 2012

Autodesk Maya 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Whether you work in film, games, television, advertising, publishing, or graphic design, Maya offers state-of-the-art toolsets, combined into a single affordable offering designed to help meet today’s demanding production requirements. Autodesk Maya 2012 delivers new toolsets for previsualization and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration.

Features:

Autodesk® Maya® 3D computer animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, 3D modeling, visual effects, 3D rendering, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software delivers new features and toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration. It delivers viewport and sequencer enhancements, node-based render passes, editable motion trails, and a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures.

Viewport 2.0 Enhancements
The high-performance viewport introduced with Maya 2011 now offers full-screen visual effects: motion blur, depth-of-field, and ambient occlusion, enabling you to evaluate your work in a higher fidelity environment and without needing to render or export to a game engine. Moreover, Viewport 2.0 now provides component and manipulator display to support modeling workflows, together with batch rendering capabilities, and a high-performance API.

Node-Based Render Passes
Create and edit node-based representations of render passes directly within Maya, and render the composited output directly through mental ray® renderer. A powerful tool for verifying and refining render passes prior to handing them to the compositor, node-based render passes also enable artists to perform certain simple compositing tasks without leaving Maya.

Editable Motion Trails
Edit animation directly in the viewport without the need to switch context to the graph editor. New editable motion trails offer a faster and easier method for fine-tuning motion animation. Intuitively edit the position and timing of keyframes in relation to the animated object while viewing the path of motion over time in 3D space, resulting in a smoother, more productive workflow.

Sequencer Enhancements
The Camera Sequencer now offers a Sequencer Playlist—enabling you to manage your sequences through a configurable spreadsheet view that gives you the ability to reorder clips, edit In and Out points, and change camera assignments—together with support for multitrack audio and the ability to output multiple shots as a single sequence.

Substance Procedural Textures
Achieve a vast range of look variations with a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures. These dynamic, resolution-independent textures have a tiny disk space footprint and can be exported to certain game engines via the Substance Air middleware offering (available separately from Allegorithmic SAS). Alternatively, textures can be quickly converted to bitmaps for rendering.

Craft Animation Tools
Easily create believable, complex camera movements that mimic real-world setups with 4 new camera rigs from the Craft Director Studio™ plug-in. Use a joystick to record real-time input while driving the camera; stabilize turbulent or unnatural camera movements; add shakiness to an existing animated camera; or smoothly transition or instantly cut between different camera views and settings.

Enhanced, Multi-Product Animation Workflows
An enhanced Graph Editor takes some of the best features from the f-curve editors within the products of the Autodesk® Maya® Entertainment Creation Suites 2012 and combines them into a toolset that offers more consistent functionality and terminology, enabling animators to more easily switch between products. Moreover, working with characters in both Maya and Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2012 software is now easier, with an enhanced interface, unified solver, and more consistent workflows for Autodesk® HumanIK® technology (formerly implemented as FBIK in Maya). In addition, customers who use the Autodesk® HumanIK® 4.5 or 2012 middleware solution can benefit from improved animation consistency between Maya and their game engine.

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Create innovative digital entertainment with Autodesk Maya 2012, an end-to-end solution for CG production at an exceptional value.
Modernize your pipeline and compete more effectively with Autodesk® Maya® 2012 modeling, animation, visual effects, rendering, and compositing software. Whether you work in film, games, television, or advertising, publishing, and graphic design production, Maya 2012 offers state-of-the-art toolsets, combined into a single affordable offering.

New Toolsets for Previsualization andGames Prototyping
Today’s challenging productions demand modern toolsets that enable you to make interactive decisions in-context. Maya 2012 delivers new and enhanced features to help you create more compelling previsualizations and games prototypes, or experiment and iterate more easily on your animations. From a higher-fidelity Viewport 2.0 with full-screen effects and support for modeling workflows, to the new ability to create node-based representations of render passes, to an expanded camera sequencer toolset, to a library of new dynamically editable and animatable procedural textures, Maya 2012 gives you tools to help explore, refine, and present your ideas prior to final production. Moreover, editable motion trails and new camera rigs offer new ways to help create and fine-tune your character and camera animations to produce higherquality, more believable content.

Extended Simulation Feature Sets
Create compelling dynamic effects in less time with new simulation options in Maya 2012 that incorporate industry-leading third-party technology, and build upon existing in-product innovations. Take advantage of the multi-threaded NVIDIA® PhysX® engine to create rigid-body simulations directly in the Maya viewport—and if you use PhysX in your game engine, you’ll be matching the runtime solution. The new Digital Molecular Matter plug-in from Pixelux Entertainment™ enables you to create highly-realistic shattering simulations with multiple interacting materials. Meanwhile, further development of the Nucleus unified simulation framework and its associated modules means that convincing pouring, splashing, and boiling liquid effects are easier to achieve.

Better Pipeline Integration
New single-step interoperability between Maya 2012, Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2012 software, and the Autodesk® Softimage® 2012 software’s Interactive Creation Environment (ICE), together with enhanced interoperability with Autodesk® Mudbox™ 2012 software—including support for Vector Displacement Maps in Maya—enable you to more easily take advantage of the focused toolsets in the Autodesk® Maya® Entertainment Creation Suites 2012. More consistent user interfaces make switching between these applications easier. If you’re a programmer familiar with the Python® scripting language, you can now enjoy easier and more powerful ways to extend and customize Maya, thanks to an improved Python API (application programming interface) that offers better command writing and is up to three times faster.

Key New Features in Autodesk Maya 2012:

Viewport 2.0 Enhancements
Evaluate your work in a higher fidelity environment without the need to render or export to a game engine, with new full-screen motion blur, depth-of-field, and ambient occlusion effects in Viewport 2.0. Other additions are component and manipulator display, batch rendering capabilities, and a high-performance API.

Node-Based Render Passes
Create and edit node-based representations of render passes directly within Maya 2012, and render the composited output in the mental ray® renderer. As well as verifying and refining your passes prior to passing them to the compositor, you can perform certain simple compositing tasks without leaving Maya.

Editable Motion Trails
Intuitively edit the position and timing of keyframes directly in the viewport while viewing the path of motion over time in 3D space. Editable motion trails provide a faster and easier method for fine-tuning motion animation, without the need to switch context to the graph editor.

Sequencer Enhancements
Reorder clips, edit In and Out points, and change camera assignments through a new Sequencer Playlist. Support for multi-track audio and the new ability to output multiple shots as a single sequence further extend the Camera Sequencer toolset.

Substance Procedural Textures
Achieve a vast range of look variations with a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures. These dynamic, resolution-independent textures can be exported to certain game engines via the Substance Air middleware offering (available separately from Allegorithmic SAS), or converted to bitmaps for rendering.

Craft Animation Tools
Now it’s easier to create believable, complex camera movements that mimic real-world set-ups, with four new camera rigs from the Craft Director Studio™ Autodesk, Face Robot, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, and Softimage are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. mental ray is a registered trademark of mental images GmbH licensed for use by Autodesk, Inc. Python is a registered trademark of Python Software Foundation. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. © 2011 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. BR0C1-000000-MZ65 animation tool. Also included are four pre-rigged models that can be used to simulate complex vehicle and airplane motion.

Enhanced, Consistent Graph Editor
Enjoy some of the best features from the f-curve editors within each of the products in the Autodesk® Maya® Entertainment Creation Suites 2012, combined into a toolset that offers more consistent functionality and terminology—so you can switch more easily between products.

New Simulation Options
Take advantage of the multi-threaded NVIDIA PhysX engine to create static, dynamic, and kinematic rigidbody simulations directly in the Maya viewport. More easily achieve highly-realistic shattering simulations using the new Digital Molecular Matter plug-in from Pixelux Entertainment.

Nucleus Enhancements
The Nucleus unified simulation framework now offers improved liquids simulation with pouring, splashing, and boiling effects; multi-threaded nParticle collisions and nCloth self-collisions; and a range of easy-to-use, customizable effects (fire, smoke, bomb, dust trail, fireworks, laser, melt, snow, sparks, and tears) that can be assigned to an object as easily as assigning a shader.

Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suites 2012
The Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suites 2012 deliver powerful 3D modeling and animation technology in a choice of software suites at a significant cost saving*. The Standard suite includes Maya with MotionBuilder real-time character animation software, and Mudbox digital sculpting and 3D painting software. With the Premium option, get additional access to the Softimage software’s innovative ICE and Autodesk® Face Robot® facial animation toolset. Single-step interoperability workflows and more consistent user interfaces in the 2012 releases enable you to more easily switch between applications. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/entertainment-creation-suites.

System Requirements:

 For 32-bit version of Autodesk Maya 2012

• Microsoft ® Windows ® 7 Professional, Microsoft ® Windows Vista ® Business (SP2) or Microsoft ® Windows ® XP Professional (SP3)
• Windows: Processor Intel ® Pentium ® 4, AMD Athlon T with support for a set of commands SSE3 (or higher)
• 2 GB of RAM
• 10 GB of free hard disk space
• Graphics card with OpenGL ® hardware acceleration from the list of compatible
• Three-button mouse driver
• DVD-ROM drive
• Hard disk: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
• Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (or higher), Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox

 For 64-bit version of Autodesk Maya 2012

• Operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 Edition (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2), Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.6.5, Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® 5.5 WS or Fedora T 1914
• Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon instruction set with support for SSE3 (or higher)
• Macintosh ®: Macintosh computer with 64-bit processor based on Intel
• 4 GB of RAM
• 10 GB of free hard disk space
• OpenGL graphics adapter with hardware acceleration from the list of compatible
• Three-button mouse driver
• DVD-ROM drive
• Hard disk: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
• Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (or higher), Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox