Maya 5.0 Irix booting on Indy R5K - Irix 6.5.22

[alexxmidnite]

Cool video :) I recently got my hands on a copy of Maya 5 and SoftImage|3D 4.0 for my Fuel. They installed without a hitch. But I'm having trouble figuring out how to install the FlexLM licenses. Are there any how to's on how to do this?

[Parsec994a]

When I was entering the animation program at my college, they were just phasing these computers out and I never got to use them. I love the unique colors and designs of the computer cases. Is there any software exclusive to these that has unique visualization/capabilities?

[ClickClackClickClack]

@Parsec994a Well there are a few demos that are *exclusive*. Thing is, these are purely work machines, and so if something is useful on one platform, like Maya, Avid's tools, Pro/E, Alias, it's available elsewhere, i.e. on Windows/Linux/OSX.

[phrozen3]

is it hard to get maya for irix these days ?

[jjaybrook]

@phrozen3 the last maya released for irix was 6.5. unfortunately it's not supported anymore :(

great machine, anyways. i had an O2.

[lin0xd]

Awesome. It was made in the 1990s, and it can still run today's programs.

[Meteotrance]

in 1988 and 1997 it was the rolls royce for making 3d content but today is very limited compare to a sun system or Mac pro station or any today pc with linux.

[cybercow222]

that is absolutely true - but you can look at it also from the brighter side, they [ any mips powered sgi ] can still make wonderful things, the excitement and creative power is still there regardless their age ,,,,,,,

[Mut8edseabass]

@cybercow222 Man SGI systems still rock. I use a 900Mhz Fuel with Maya 6.5 professionally. Coupled with my Origin 300 system, it holds its own quite well. These guys knew how to make a a rocking system!

[nouShit]

go go go go Indy !!!

[Aistulf]

Excellent piece of hardware. Indeed, rather amazing it could handle Maya all the way up to version 5.

Nowadays everything is quantity, not quality.

[marshalauth]

I don't think the indy was intended for such a CPU intensive program.

[randomshinichi]

Damn, that is slow. And what is all that banding on Maya's splash screen? isn't your card 24bit colour?

[Aistulf]

That's the refresh rate, wiseguy.

[rednose91]

lol

[r66chs]

I love these machines, SGI make the most attractive hardware!

[fasteez]

i think they had specific softwares to do terminator 2 , and not a big integrated one like maya. they may did a lot of pass to make the T1000 effects on old sgi machines.

[lenooh]

what do you mean simple logo? wasn't the terminator2 done on an irix machine?

[N9olan]

yeah but that movie was done on sgi onyx like machines...oh wait i remember...that movie was done on hardware less powerful than the indy, the Iris I think it was called!

[cybercow222]

:D

... in fact it`s not so bad like it seems :O it`s clear that one can`t make something special and complicated, but some simple logo or something like this still can be done :)

[milatchi]

My God.