Cheap Software and Renderer

[Preludes Rule]

I'm Using Maya PLE at the moment, and its really annoying me with the big MAYA logo all over the renders, and the render which it comes with is rubbish.

Does anyone know where I can get Maya and a renderer cheap, or even better free because I really have no money at the moment

Thanks for any suggestions.

[teeworks.]

dunno if you are student or still go to school ? ...perhaps there is something like a studen licensed version in the UK? should be... (google should help)

otherwise there is something like blender or so, which is free but... urgh... not very comfortable/effective

[Preludes Rule]

ok thanks, I'll look into it. I am a student, so may be able to get a student license but its still very expensive.

[teeworks.]

nah, its worth it! 400bucks for example to get XSI Advanced which costs normally 6000 or what...

[Evan Grant]

Here's the real question...is a pirated version wrong if you
A. Did not pay for it
B. Cannot aford it.
C. You are a student
D. You are not using it for commercial purposes, just hobby art

[slice56]

if you are a student, then i would just find a pirated version from a friend. you dont want to hinder your skills b/c Maya isnt priced for students

[Absolutehype]

Im having the same problem, I need maya in particular because i am hopefully going into a course in london at escape studios on maya. Unfortunately costs £10,499 so aswell as the costs of getting down there i will have to buy the software which is excessively priced for students like me. Not just that but i cant actually get it running on my pc. The PLE version locks up at the top when i try to click on anything, the menu bar goes grey and it crashes and only half the icons load. I think it might be a RAM thing.

My Spec is AMD Athlon XP2000+
512mb DDR Ram
Nvidia Gforce MX440 64mb
You dont really need to know the rest but the computer is very low quality ok. It runs fine though, was a low budget job made by me and it runs great, i run 3DSM7 on it no probs at all with relatively quick render times. Aswell as combustion and photoshop CS2 and Aftereffects. Why does maya have the problem? Any ideas
:banghead:

[Tigron]

hi buddy,check this one,maybe it's helpful
www.hxsd.com.cn

[Absolutehype]

Who are you relating too and what are we supposed to be looking at its chinese

[Spirit]

hi buddy,check this one,maybe it's helpful
www.hxsd.com.cn

I may be incredibly clever, but i'm not multi-lingual (apart from some german ).

I'm looking for 3DS max, and don't mind if its pirted - im just using it for a hobby and i am a student.

[el_shadow]

I may be incredibly clever, but i'm not multi-lingual (apart from some german ).

I'm looking for 3DS max, and don't mind if its pirted - im just using it for a hobby and i am a student.

well in that case, you may find it on "emule"... just go ahed. I just don't do it because I'm working with Max 7 thanks to a friend of mine (lucky rich guy) who buys max since 3dsmax 5

He is about to buy Max 8 and I'm diing to try it out :chinese:

[teeworks.]

...ahm ok, before its comin to link exchange here... -> CLOSED.

this topic is very disputed and we will not have something like that here.