Autodesk Maya Sucks

Posted by DesertFox on Dec. 12, 2008, 1:08 p.m.

Autodesk Maya sucks so bad. I swear. Its buggy. Its UI interface is crap. Its keyboard shortcuts suck. It has pretty much ZERO precision. You get pretty much zero numerical manipulation. You click on something, and it selects a different face or vertex a million miles away, even WITH selecting hidden faces removed. It crashes randomly. Its cut face tool is shit. To do ANYTHING you have to go through a billion menus. To change between face/vertex/object/edge mode is a bitch because 50% of the time it brings up a useless menu instead and deselects everything.

Pretty much Autodesk Maya is SHIT. How in hell it became an industry standard is beyond me. As far as I can tell, everyone uses it because everyone else uses it and they want to be compatible.

And to top it off, I have an asshole sitting next to me telling me how glorious Maya is and that I'm stupid for wanting to use a program that works, even though Maya crashed 4 times in an hour on him.

Comments

Josea 16 years ago

Autodesk also makes Maya? I thought they only made 3ds max…

which, based on what you say about Maya, is orders of magnitude better.

Requiem 16 years ago

And it's only $5000. =D

Zac1790 16 years ago

At least it's not like Caligari hell - oops I mean Truespace. …which just so happens to be the polar opposite as far as the interface goes. What's 'self-intuitive' about a green dot? Or a blue oval?

Zac1790 16 years ago

Josea Maya was made by (and once called:) Alias. Autodesk bought Alias so now 3DS Max's old archenemy is owned by themselves.

Kenon 16 years ago

Well, Truespace is free now, so yeah.

Xxypher 16 years ago

Exactly.

Josea 16 years ago

@Kenon: everything is free on the Internet.

Castypher 16 years ago

Autodesk PERIOD sucks, though I've found Inventor was pretty fun.