what is the difference between maya 5 unlimited and complete?

[Naisa Evoli]

I’m not 100% sure about 5, but i do know with 6, you get a couple little extra options in some tools, and a couple extra tools, but the big thing are the dynamics. In unlimited you get Fluid effects, cloth, hair, fur, and stuff like that. These programs are really cool, awesome for eye candy, but not needed at all by someone just trying to learn how to model, or animate, or anything like that. For demo reels you really shouldn’t use any of these anyway because companies don’t want to see how well you can use a plug=in, they want to see how well your pure modeling, animating, lighting capabilities are. so i would say, unless you are looking to make short films, or use the package in some professional manner, go with the complete. It has all you need to practice what you need to practice. (unless you re in school and the school uses unlimited. Then you might, keyword is might, have compatibility issues brining it from school to home. But in this case you can get a legal very inexpensive copy from journeyed.com so it wont matter anyway. You can get unlimited really cheap there and it’s the same version the pro’s pay full price for.)

[Superman]

Thanks for taking the time to clear that up for me!
Cheers :applause:

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