Alias Announces Maya 6.5

Representatives from Alias have announced that Maya 6.5 is now available to download for customers on the company’s platinum membership program. This latest release of the popular program aims to boost performance across the package, with new tools for managing large datasets – giving artists more control over scene load times, project collaboration and overall data-handling performance. Polygon and UV texturing operations have also been optimized, as have animation, character setup and deformers. Faster rendering results including Interactive Photorealistic Rendering (IPR) are also now possible via a new network rendering option that supplements the mental ray rendering capabilities within Maya 6.5. "This latest version of Maya proves the dedication of Alias to meet the needs of the game development community," comments Stephen White, programming director, Naughty Dog, Inc. "Maya continues to evolve as a critical tool in our game development process and this version addresses many important current needs as well as features critical to the future of game development.”