Autodesk Maya Unlimited 2008 School Edition

The ultimate version of Maya® software—Autodesk Maya Unlimited—is the choice of digital artists who are looking to make their 3D projects stand out. Maya Unlimited includes all the functionality found in Autodesk Maya Complete and provides professional artists and animators with additional industry-leading innovations such as Maya Fluid Effects, Maya nCloth, Maya Hair, Maya Fur, and Maya Live for the creation of superior digital content.

Autodesk Maya Unlimited contains everything in Autodesk Maya Complete, plus:

Maya Fluid Effects
Simulate and render a huge variety of atmospheric, pyrotechnic, viscous liquid, and open ocean effects. Maya Fluid Effects overcomes one of the greatest barriers in computer animation.

Maya Fur
Easily create realistic fur, short hair, wool and grass on NURBS, subdivision surfaces, or polygonal models. Incredibly realistic styling and rendering of short hair and fur, with Maya Artisan Brush Interface for painting fur attributes.

Maya nCloth
As the first Maya module built on the Autodesk new Nucleus technology, Maya nCloth functionality lets you quickly direct and control cloth and other material simulations in entirely new ways. Maya nCloth objects can be as stiff, viscous, or flowing, and as tightly or loosely woven as you desire. Rapidly create cloth-on-cloth simulations—such as a shirt over pants—with believable influences and collisions. Bend, stretch, shear, dent, or even tear your Maya nCloth fabrics with ease. Beyond cloth, Maya nCloth lets you create deformable plastic and metal simulations, inflatable objects, as well as rigid-body and fluidic-type effects.

Maya Live
Combine 2D live-action with 3D elements. Maya Live provides greater flexibility, a fast-integrated 2D Tracker, and an interactive Root Frame Solver. Maya Live also allows you to reconstruct live-action elements as 3D geometry as well as output to external applications.

Maya Hair
Create, style, and render fully dynamic long hair on NURBS or polygon objects. Make any NURBS curve dynamic for use in advanced character rigging and effects. Maya Hair can also be used to create a wide range of nonhair effects.

System Requirements

Software
The 32-bit version of Autodesk® Maya® 2008 software is supported on any of the following operating systems:

Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Business

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP2 or higher)

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4.0 WS (U4)

openSuSE Linux 10.2

Fedora™ Core 5

Apple® Mac OS® X 10.4.9 (PowerPC® and Intel® versions of Maya)

The 64-bit version of Maya 2008 software is supported on any of the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows Vista Business

Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition (SP1 or higher)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 WS (U4)

openSuSE Linux 10.2

Fedora Core 5

These web browsers are supported for Autodesk Maya 2008:

Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher

Netscape® 7 or higher

Apple® Safari™

Mozilla Firefox™

Hardware
At a minimum, the 32-bit version of Maya 2008 software requires a system with the following hardware:

Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon® 64, or AMD Opteron® processor

Macintosh®: Power Mac® G5 or Intel®-based Macintosh® computers

2 GB RAM

2 GB hard disk space

Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card

Three-button mouse with mouse driver software

DVD-ROM drive

At a minimum, the 64-bit version of Maya 2008 software requires a system with the following hardware:

Windows and Linux: Intel EM64T, AMD Athlon 64, or AMD Opteron processor

2 GB RAM

2 GB hard disk space

Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card

Three-button mouse with mouse driver software

DVD-ROM drive

Note: Maya 2008 is also capable of running on other hardware configurations such as the Power Mac G4 or boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online qualification charts.