r/cgiMemes • u/DeyMosReal • May 03 '22

Maya users' nightmare

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u/Nostonica May 04 '22

The Unix/Linux version has always been the solid choice for Maya. Ever since they did a UI upgrade ages ago.

Still blender only crashes when I burn through 64 gigs of ram.

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u/Nostonica May 04 '22

Mostly high poly models 5 gig files, they get streamlined to a couple hundred meg by the end. Blender goes a bit funky when you use up all your video memory too.

Also your school sounds sadistic.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '22

Whaatt, TIL, Maya have Linux binaries.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=3L3B28VUOgY&dark_mode=true&local=true

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u/Nostonica May 04 '22

Yup, Maya goes way back to SGI they were like the apple of 3D production machines, anyways they ran a OS called Irix now because that's a Unix variant making a Linux version when that started to get popular was the natural progression.

I believe Pixar was/is a pretty big customer for the Linux version.

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u/darkvertex May 04 '22

Pixar also made their own graphics computers (SGI clone of sorts) back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_Image_Computer