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ALIAS MAYA
Lantech Systems and Alias Maya add to the quality and realism of 2D graphics. That's why film and video artists, game developers, visualization professionals, Web and print designers turn to Lantech Systems and Alias Maya to bridge their reality and imagination.
Academy Award® winning Maya® software is the world's most powerfully integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution when combined with Lantech Artisan Workstations.
With Autodesk Maya 8.5 software, Autodesk demonstrates its commitment to innovation.
A PERFECT COMBINATION FOR YOU 3D INNOVATION
Artists in every profession use Lantech Workstations and Alias Maya software because it's the most powerfully integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Maya also adds to the quality and realism of 2D graphics. That's why film and video artists, game developers, visualization professionals, web, product and print designers, turn to Lantech Artisan Workstation and Alias Maya to take their work to the next level. |
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The Messengers
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Maya 8.5 marks the first installment of Maya® Nucleus technology within Maya. Maya Nucleus—Autodesk’s next-generation unified simulation framework—is based upon technology developed by award-winning Autodesk research scientist Jos Stam. Maya Nucleus is a linked particle system that interactively simulates a wide range of dynamic entities. It works with a variety of geometry types (curves, non-manifold geometry, meshes with holes, and so forth) within a unified framework.
Maya nCloth
 As the first Maya module built on Autodesk’s 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 nCloth is only available in Maya Unlimited.
Python
 Python, a powerful and accessible scripting language, is now available in Maya. Not only has Python been integrated into the software at the same level as the Maya Embedded Language (MEL), its bindings to the OpenMaya API give you an alternative language for plug-in development. Plus, the Maya Python modules can be imported into an external standalone Python interpreter for batch processing. With its higher-level language constructs, Python supports developer productivity while providing easily maintainable code. The language is also highly extensible, with a broad collection of third-party tools and modules freely available.
Expanded Platform Support
Maya 8.5 software gives you more platform options. Maya is the only full-function 3D animation software to run on 32-bit Windows®, Linux®, and Mac OS® X and 64-bit Windows and Linux. As of Maya 8.5, Intel®-based Macintosh® computer support is provided as a Universal binary – so you can use 32-bit Maya software on either the PowerPC®- or Intel-based Macintosh computers.
mental ray Shaders
 Realizing physically accurate outdoor environments has become significantly easier as of Maya 8.5. New physical sun and physical sky shaders let you create photorealistic skies based on the position of the sun – all with the power of the highly acclaimed, physically based mental ray® rendering engine. Plus, new architectural and design shaders make it easier for you to create such effects as waxy floors, frosted glass, clay and sand-blasted metals.
mental ray Workflow
New and reorganized render attributes make the mental ray for Maya render settings significantly more intuitive. Likewise, in the Render Option and Batch Render Option editors you can now configure mental ray to automatically determine, at the start of each render, the optimal memory limit, tile size, or number of threads. New as of Maya 8.5, high dynamic range (HDR) images can be generated from the mental ray batch bake option, the Transfer Map feature, or the texture bakeSet node.
Japan Localization
Core-level development efforts have allowed Autodesk to deliver a powerful new Japanese version of Maya. As of Maya 8.5, those who prefer to work in Japanese can do so while they navigate Maya, or customize their tools and user interface. |
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Lantech Workstations and nVIDIA Quadro FX family of Professional workstation solutions delivers the fastest application performance and the highest quality workstation graphics. Lantech Workstations powered by nVIDIA SLI Technology and certified by Lantech Systems is a revolutionary approach to scalability, enabling multiple GPUs (graphics processing units) in a single system for increased graphics performance and visual quality for power hungry animation artists. | |
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