Over the past few years, there has been a significant decrease in the number of Maya customers relying on the IRIX operating system for running Maya interactively. As a result, Maya 6.5 will be the last upgrade release for IRIX. Going forward, Alias will concentrate its development of Maya on the remaining platforms, namely Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Alias will however continue to offer support for IRIX as a license-serving platform. For further details, please contact your Alias authorized representative or go to This chart indicates recommended Operating Systems, overlays, patchsets, and additional patches at time of press.
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Please check or your local sales office or reseller for latest information. Important Notice: Maya 6.5 will not run on IRIX prior to 6.5.x. Products Version Software Date Maya Complete / Unlimited 6.5 18 Please Note The Following:.
Maya 6.5 has been qualified under IRIX 6.5 (only): The OS versions specified in this table are the ones used for the qualification process. While it may be possible to use Maya successfully on earlier or later versions, Alias cannot guarantee their performance or behaviour. How To Obtain IRIX 6.5 upgrades. Customers with valid SGI software support can gain access to overlays through the worldwide web at.
Customers in North America can also call the Technical Assistance Center at 1-800-800-4744. International customers should call their local SGI office. Customers without worldwide web access should call the Technical Assistance Center or their local SGI office as indicated above. Mental ray for Maya: Is qualified on the same platforms as Maya. Dispatcher: currently, does not work with IRiX 6.5.24. File Compatibility Maya Maya 6.5 can read Maya 6.0.x, Maya 5.0, 4.x, 3.x, Maya 2.x, and Maya 1.x format files. Others.
Maya 6.5 imports Adobe Illustrator, OBJ, DXF, DWG (AutoCAD 1 to 2000), IGES, Alias Wire (win32/linux/irix), OpenFlight (win32/irix/linux) Maya 6.5 exports OBJ, DXF, DWG, IGES, Alias Wire (win32/linux/irix), MOV, VRML2, RTG and GE2, OpenFlight (win32/irix/linux).Not all file formats are supported on all platforms. General Configuration. At least 512MB of RAM is required and more is strongly recommended for any practical use of Maya. It may be possible to successfully use Maya with a non-qualified or partially qualified configuration, but support and maintenance programs will be subject to the Alias Support services guidelines. The configurations shown are subject to change, and additional qualified configurations may be added after qualification testing has been carried out. The OS versions specified in this table are the ones used for the qualification process. While it may be possible to use Maya successfully on earlier or later versions, Alias cannot guarantee their performance or behaviour.
We do not recommend saving data directly from Maya to NFS or Novell Netware or other remote mounted file systems. We have received several reports of data corruption when saving in this method although we have been unable to reproduce this. We strongly recommend that you save the files locally and then copy the data to the mounted storage system. When texture images are stored on systems remote from the rendering process; depending on network speed, specifications and load it is possible that the renderer may be unable to access a texture file on demand and may 'drop' individual textures on a frame by frame basis. To reduce this occurrence store textures on a system local to the rendering process.
Maya Developer's Tool Kit: To build Maya plug-ins, you must have MIPSpro C compiler version 7.2.1 or 7.3.1.1m (recommended). Additionally, plug-ins for this version of Maya must be build on IRIX 6.5.
Plug-ins built on IRIX 6.2, 6.3 or 6.4 will normally crash or behave improperly if loaded into Maya. Maya Hardware Renderer is not supported on IRIX. Supported Platforms Hardware Qualified on IRIX. Known Problems Tezro R14000A V12 IRIX 6.5.24m + patches 15 Fuel R14000A V12 IRIX 6.5.24m + patches 15 Octane2 R10000/R12000 V12 IRIX 6.5.24m 10 Octane R10000/R12000 SI/SSI/MXI/ESI/ESSI/EMXI IRIX 6.5.24m 12 Unsupported Platforms Onyx R12000 InfiniteReality3 Unsupported: IRIX 6.5.16m +patches 13 Onyx R10000 InfiniteReality Unsupported: IRIX 6.5.15m 6 Onyx R4400 InfiniteReality Unsupported: IRIX 6.5.15m 6 Any Indy with 8bit graphics INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS CANNOT RUN. For other purposes refer to Indy above Indigo R4000 with 24 bit graphics Unsupported: IRIX 6.5.12m 8 Indigo R4000 with 8 bit graphics INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS CANNOT RUN.