I think that it is unfair to compair maya ple to exp becuase. Evry on this forum was complaining about ple when it first came out. The watermark are everywhere, it doesn’t include any of the features that are in unlimited (and i thinksome that are in complete), it doesn’t allow you to open any of the regular maya files and there is more but i can’t remember them right now.
I think softimage did something better. and in my opinion will be what other companies will do to stop the pirating of their software. The company i don’t see doing something like this is probable discreet ( they are so capitol man, they suck balls. then agian gmax is free but that don’t count.) Softimage realized a long time ago who their target consumers were( highend users with lots of dough) but did not want to alianate those users who can’t really afford their app ( maya just lowered down their prices at the risk of lowering the production value of the soft, less money less R&D). However softinage realizes that this could possibly create a huge amount of pirating of their software. Maya ple is so weak that i don’t see pirating of maya slowing down any time soon. But EXP is XSI in all respects but the few watermarks that are sparingly spread throughout ( unlike in maya where even the dialogs have watermarks on them.) and a few rendering related limitatations which aren’t all that bad in my opinion ( i’m pretty sure that softimage will do a contest where if they like your pic that you send them they will give you a full version of the app. they usually do stuff like that all the time). I think that we will see a new version of maya ple that will resemble exp’s mantra in a lot of ways.
Just my opinion though they might just let their software be pirated who knows.
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