Is the update from 4.5 to 5.0 worth it?

[Atwooki]

Definitely! Of course, this will depend on what area of Maya you focus on...

Atwooki

[klingspor]

I've seen (and tried) it at a collegue's place and, personally, I found no reason to upgrade. Especially since I don't use Mental Ray, otherwise I might feel different.
PaintFX to poly could be nice, but alas the polycount is so high that I find it quite useless.

Anyway, my main gripe is that, once again, the older plug-ins don't work. Sure, I can wait for everyone and their mom to recompile them, but that's just not the way it's supposed to work...

[kamil_w]

>>PaintFX to poly could be nice, but alas the polycount is so high that I find it quite useless...

There is a PFX mesh quality window which collects attrs that have impact on polycount.

You can output it as quads and/or set the limit for polygons.

You can also use new poly reduction tool on meshes created from PFX. It works great.

...tested it on trees...great results.

[Atwooki]

EXACTLY! and well summised....
Just as the recent algorithm introduced into m4.0(?) for displacements speeded things up no end, so does the much more cofigurable 'reduce poly' option box ---> a welcome and long overdue(!) addition.. :thumbsup:

P.S. also works wonders for distance ---> terrain management and history --> sub_D's....

Atwooki

[arangel]

For the projects I work on, the DWG import is really a blessing! It even respects the original AutoCAD layers.
The intergration of the renderers (Maya, MR, Vector) is also very handy.

Alexandre Rangel

[Ibanezhead]

Do you need the features that have been added or upgraded? If not, then it isn't worth it...

Vic

[rebo]

Im interested in the new IK/FK keying system having got used to the 3 skeleton setup is AW's solution in maya 5 any better?

[larryvm]

i think you can change if you have de same or beter in maya 5 but if you have scenes withs plugins you must think a lot of because the maya plugin´s incompatibility between versions can be a problem.

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