Maya LT Is Limited?

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@Galeon;160543

Im’ not a Blender evangelist , you should try it some day and you’ll find that putting 30$ per month for something you can have for free is a loss.

Dude, did I not make it abundantly clear that I have tried Blender? I have spent hundreds of hours with Blender. I know it is powerful software, just not on Maya’s level.

@Galeon;160543

I don’t know why you lack so much consideration for beginners or indie companies that makes games or movies using Blender.

Right, beginners and Indies. Most pros are willing to pay thousands of dollars to not use Blender.

@Galeon;160543

Perhaps blender interface is not intuitive and can be longer to learn , but the modeling and animations have more than what you need, these two areas are better than Maya LT.

If you believe that, then you are seriously drinking the Blender Kool-Aid.

@Galeon;160543

Many users of both software agree that Maya LT is a downgraded version of Maya with many limitations

Yes, I think that pretty much everyone in the world agrees that Maya LT is a downgraded version of Maya with many limitations. Even Autodesk would probably agree with that statement. Because of those limitations, there are certainly some areas where you get more from Blender. Examples are the Renderer, particles, hair, cloth, and high-poly export. Above I was comparing Blender with Maya, not Maya LT. However, I still think Maya LT is worth the price due to the ease of use in conjunction with UE4. For better or worse, Epic Games uses Maya and they have designed UE to be highly compatible with Maya exports.

@;160664

I know Blender , i’m working in 3D Motion Design ( 4 year ago) with Blender . You can Follow my old Vimeo Channel Blender Essentiel with more 1000 Tutorials ,now i don’t work with blender so if you want add more tutorials to this channel , PM me , i will add you .

Here is someone who worked with Blender quite a bit, I’d say. He’s created 1000 tutorials for Blender and has now abandoned it for Maya LT.

@starseeker;160573

Then also, Maya (normal) cannot read Maya LT file (correct me if I am wrong), so if you wanted to send the scene file to another person using normal maya, you can’t. if you started work in Maya, then continue to work in Maya LT, bye bye to even seeing the scene file in Maya again…shoudl you wanted to upgrade ot something.

This is true… Autodesk figures big studios would give all of their modelers and animators a copy of LT rather than full Maya, so they disable large scene export to Maya (Maya cannot open .mlt files and they are encrypted.) You can still export 65k polys at a time through FBX though.

And on the specific topic of game creation with Unreal, I’d say Maya LT is more useful than Blender. Try it and see what I mean, all you Blender fans. Try the retopo tools that are best in class. Use the UV tools and create a few UVs (10x better than Blender’s UV tools.) Rig up your model by hand with the HumanIK tools and see how much easier it is to get both RK and IK working with your model VS Blender. Try ShaderFX to drag and drop effects and create materials. Then use the export to Unreal tool to export everything into UE and watch it work properly the first time with no headaches. If you still prefer Blender after all of that, then I wish you the best with it.