I’m trying to find a Maya package that will work with Unity and not cost me $3,500 and I see a Maya 8.5 for a good deal. Does anyone know if this version is compatible with Unity?
Even if the native format of Maya 8.5 is not compatible with Unity, you can export your works as fbx.
But i think Unity uses the default 3d editor that you have installed to reconvert the files you save directly into the project folder… so, it doesn’t mater if it is compatible or not… i guess O_o
Well the Unity site says Carrara is compatible and it’s not so I don’t want to spend a lot of money on a program if the basic animations won’t even export. It looks complicated as heck anyway but if I can get the animations to export, it’ll be worth it.
carrara is compatible but actually really only through collada export and carrara 7 and older does not export animation actually at all in those formats.
with maya you risk that its commandline is not compatible with the current one and thus won’t work.
you might want to drop the unity support a mail. most here use the current versions of the things as plugins and cross application interaction etc don’t work with older versions commonly
Ok, thanks. I will ask Unity Support what versions of Maya are still fully compatible.