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Chapter 1 ✦ An Introduction to Maya
Table 1-1
Customer Learning Experience
Feature Description
User interface improvements These improvements include easy access to
saved layouts, lasso tools, rotate tool snapping,
align objects, selectable wireframe colors,
automatic backup on save, progress bar, and new
heads up display options.
New instant Maya books Speeds the learning process through easy-to-
understand examples.
Table 1-2 lists changes made to Basic features.
Table 1-2
Basic Features
Feature Improvement Description
Subdivision Surfaces Subdivision surfaces have been moved to the
Maya Complete package. Thus, you get them with
the less expensive “Complete” version of Maya,
even on Mac OS X.
Version Parity on Mac OS X Maya Complete features are the same on all
platforms, including OS X. Maya Unlimited
features are still only available on IRIX, LINUX,
and Windows.
Fluid Dynamics (Unlimited Feature) Maya Fluid Dynamics actually adds a slew of new
features and concepts to the world of 3D
animation. In order to facilitate fluid dynamics as
an artist’s tool, volumes of texturable voxels were
added to the core of Maya’s functionality and
renderer. So, you not only have the ability to
simulate fluids and oceans, you also have the
ability to model and paint using voxels, sort of
like 3D texturable pixels, shown in Figure 1-6.
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