Autodesk released promised „BonusTools 2012“ for Maya 2012. The main change with the version before it’s that the menu is completely revamped to be more in line with Maya menus. Ten brand new tools have been added and at least a dozen others have been updated and this also includes many bug fixes. You can download the tool from Autodesk web page at: http://area.autodesk.com/bonus_tools .
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Autodesk released the second service pack for 3DsMax 2011. They promising to fix „hopefully“ the problems which user have with the 2011 version of 3DsMax. They also announced that they don’t plan to this time a third service pack, so let’s hope for the best by this. The service pack is already ready for download on Autodesk web page.
Autodesk released a Hotfix "1" for Maya 2012. The hotfix brings enhancements to Python scripting with the new Maya Python API 2.0. The new API platform should be better, faster and bring more offers to programmers. The structure of the new Python is similar to the old one, so the shouldn’t be any problem to translate from old Python to the new one.
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Autodesk is planning to release a Service Pack for his new 3DsMax 2012 in the middle of June. The fixes would be mainly focused on Nitrous and Cat, but will fix many other things. „This is one of the largest SPs we've done“. So, all Max users should be happy that soon a lot of fixes will come.
Some of the planned fixes:
· 3dsmax.mat library missing from installer
· Bad wording in MassFX Dialog
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