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Autodesk Maya 2008 software delivers faster, more efficient tools and workflows for creating the stunning, high-resolution characters, environments, and performances that will populate the games consoles, theater screens, and televisions of the future.

New and Enhanced Modeling Tools and Workflows
Maya 2008 introduces considerable performance improvements and a number of new features that will make modeling workflows significantly more efficient. The Maya Mesh Smooth workflow, for instance, has been dramatically streamlined: You can now preview a smoothed mesh while editing the mesh cage—with superb performance, particularly on multiprocessor workstations. Other much-requested workflow enhancements include the ability to position objects along a curve, replace objects within a scene, and convert instances to objects.

Additionally, a new Slide Edge feature—as well as significant enhancements to Booleans, Bevel, Bridge, Reduce, and other tools—let you model more efficiently. Maya 2008 also delivers two new selection management features: X-Ray selection highlighting and the ability to “pick walk” edge loops.

Faster, More Accurate Viewport / Hardware Rendering
Truly WYSIWYG interactive previews are several steps closer now that the Maya hardware rendering engine supports layered textures, multiple UV sets, negative lighting, and object space normal maps. Not only does this improve preview fidelity when using the High Quality renderer in the interactive viewport, it allows a greater range of effects to be rendered to final output using the Maya hardware renderer. Moreover, accelerated draw and selection performance, together with more efficient updating of UI elements, facilitates level editing and speeds overall workflows.

Support for DirectX HLSL Shaders
With Maya you can effectively create and display sophisticated looks for content destined for the next-generation game consoles. In particular, native support for DirectX® HLSL shaders (in addition to the existing CgFX support), can let you work with assets in the viewport and see them as they will be seen on the target console.

Nondestructive Skin Editing
Animators and animation technical directors usually find it necessary to work iteratively on their rigged characters. Maya 2008 can streamline iterative skinning workflows by enabling you to modify the skeleton of a bound character, without having to rebind it after, thus preserving any work done after the skeleton was bound. This process is supported through new tools for inserting, moving, deleting, connecting, and disconnecting joints on a bound skeleton, as well as support for multiple bind poses.

API Enhancements
Game developers can now more easily write high-performance hardware shading plug-ins for Maya using the new API for hardware shaders. This API includes native support for OpenGL® and DirectX® shaders, built-in support for shader parameters, and direct access to the Maya rendering cache. Also, a new constraints API can allow plug-in developers to write their own animation constraint nodes and commands derived from the underlying Maya constraint node and command architecture. This makes it easier to write custom constraints and have them interact with the rest of Maya in a manner similar to built-in constraints.

mental ray 3.6 Core
Maya 2008 uses the latest mental ray® 3.6 core, a release that boasts dramatic performance improvements in the translation of polygon meshes and instances for rendering, as well as for IPR (Interactive Photorealistic Rendering) startup. Additionally, particle types previously supported only in the Maya Hardware renderer can now be rendered in mental ray, eliminating the need to combine outputs from multiple renderers.

Expanded Platform Support
Support for Windows Vista™ operating system has been added, enabling customers to take advantage of the performance capabilities of this recent technology.


Maya 2008官方于2007年9月正式发行。这是有关Maya 2008的相关简介。

利用 Autodesk® Maya® 2008 软件打造非凡 3D 特效。这个最新版本为制作令人难以置信的高分辨率角色、环境及角色表演提供了更快、更高效的工具和工作流程，包括用于制作高分辨率模型的新功能以及用于角色搭建和蒙皮的新的无损编辑工作流程。Maya 2008 还能让游戏开发人员更高效地制作和显示用于新一代游戏控制台的尖端效果。此外，Autodesk 还将继续加强这些优势，通过提高软件的可扩展性以及继续在娱乐行业提供比任何其它 3D 软件包更多的平台支持，使 Maya 成为建立数字内容制作流程的理想软件。

主要功能和改进:

*新的和改进的建模工具与工作流程
Maya 2008 引入了重要的性能改进和许多的新功能，显著提高了建模工作流程的效率。例如，Maya 网格平滑工作流程就得到了重大改进：你现在可以在编辑网格骨架的同时预览平滑的网格—性能出众，特别是在多处理器工作站上。其他深受用户欢迎的工作流程改进包括沿曲线定位物体、替换场景内的物体以及把引用转换为物体的功能。

此外，新的 Slide Edge 功能—以及 Booleans、Bevel、Bridge、Reduce 和其他工具的重大改进—能让你更高效地进行建模。Maya 2008 还提供了两种新的选择管理功能：X-Ray 选择亮显和“pick walk”边循环功能


*更快、更精确的视窗/硬件渲染
现在，由于 Maya 硬件渲染引擎支持分层纹理、多组 UV、负片灯光和物体空间法向贴图，因而使得向真正的“所见即所得”交互式预览又接近了几步。当在交互式视口中使用高质量渲染器时，这不仅可以提高预览保真度，还允许使用 Maya 硬件渲染器把更广泛的特效渲染到最终输出。此外，加速的绘图和选择性能与用户界面元素的更高效更新一起，可以促进层级编辑，加速总体工作流程。

*支持 DirectX HLSL 材质
Maya 2008 能让你高效地制作和显示用于新一代游戏控制台的尖端效果。特别是，对 DirectX® HLSL 材质的本地支持（以及现有的 CgFX 支持）能让你视窗中处理素材，并能象在目标控制台上一样观看它们。

*无损皮肤编辑
动画师和动画技术总监通常发现有必要在他们搭建的角色上进行迭代工作。Maya 2008 现在改进了迭代蒙皮工作流程，使你能够修改绑定角色的骨骼，而不必在修改后重新绑定，因而避免了在骨骼绑定后进行任何工作。这个过程是通过在绑定骨骼上插入、移动、删除、连接和断开关节的新工具以及对多种绑定姿势的支持实现的。

*API 改进
游戏开发人员现在可以使用新的硬件材质 API，更轻松地为 Maya 编写高性能的硬件着色插件。这个 API 包含对 OpenGL 和 DirectX 材质的本地支持、内置材质参数支持，并能直接访问 Maya 渲染缓存。另外，新的约束 API 能让插件开发人员从基本 Maya 约束节点和命令结构编写他们自己的动画约束节点和命令。这使得更容易编写自定义约束，并让它们以与内置约束相似的方式与 Maya 其他部分进行交互。

*mental ray 3.6 内核
Maya 2008 使用最新的 mental ray 3.6 内核，此版本可在转换多边形网格和引用以进行渲染时显著提高性能，并提高 IPR（交互式写实渲染）启动性能。此外，以前仅在 Maya 硬件渲染器中支持的粒子类型现在可以在 mental ray 中进行渲染，因而消除了组合多个渲染器输出的需要。

*扩展的平台支持
新增了对 Windows Vista™ 操作系统的支持，使你能够利用这种最新技术的更高性能。

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