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Hi Autodesk, I’ve been a Maya user now for about 6 years. During those long and painful years with Maya I have come to realise a few things…
* Autodesk doesn’t fix bugs. They write new gadgets with sparkly lights to distract users from the existing bugs, in the hope that we will forget about them.
* Nothing in Maya is easy! Every thing that can be done, must be done the hard way. I have yet to come across a job done in Maya where there wasn’t a need to go and debug a rig, remake a scene, recover from a crash, close and reopen the program to fix a bug. It is a constant case of, “Click. Oh wait that should work!? Let me spend the rest of my day, trying to figure out why and how to fix it. “
* If it’s obvious that something should work. It won’t work that way. For instance, the new interface is quicktime based (2011 onwards) however, it is impossible to load a quicktime video file as an image plane in Maya 2011 64bit. It actually says in the help docs that it isn’t supported.
Sidebar: Now imagine this in another situation. Imagine Windows release a new version that doesn’t support the running of .exe files. The entire operating system is running through .exe files. Explorer.exe is the actual windows base program. Pretty stupid wouldn’t you say.
* The boolean tool may work or it may not work. Its a matter of luck. Humans have been to the moon and back, invented smartphones that connect you to any person on any inch of the planet, but Maya cannot figure out how to cut one shape from another efficiently and without incident.
* Everyone always mentions the shatter tool. We know it doesn’t work and yet it is still included in the releases. Either fix it or let it go but please stop torturing us.
* Importing .3ds files, I think, should be a permanent additive to Maya’s plug-ins and not a bonus tools download. Surely you could find it in your hearts to call the 3DS Max guys down the hall and sort out a solution. You own all the tools, time to use them.
All the above issues amongst many others cause myself and others daily pain. It is getting to the point where I am going to throw my hands up in the air again, save what little hair I have left and port to another package entirely.
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