Use Maya and Shake in linux

In linux, use Maya and Shake-general Linux technology-Linux technology and application information. The following is a detailed description. Some people have done experiments. In various CG application projects, the Linux platform is generally better than the WIN platform. In some projects, the performance can be improved by more than 100%, which is quite impressive. I believe that many CGer students are still unable to purchase high-priced professional workstations. What should they do to improve their performance? Here I recommend that you use the linux platform for CG production. I will record my installation experiences of the two most basic CG software-Maya and Shake, and hope it will be useful to other Linux CGers.

First, let's take a look at the origins of 3D animation production and Linux. In fact, as early as the 1990s S, Hollywood film manufacturers began to use the Linux platform to create 3D effects.

The 3D special effects of the famous Titanic are completed in Linux, also, for example, "X man", "I", "II", "Final Fantasy", "cat and dog wars", "I", "II", "III", "I ", port II, Star Wars II, little pony genie, Star Trek, Black Empire III, Pirates of the Caribbean, sinbarda: seven sea legends and so on



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To be surprised, their special effects are all completed on the Linux platform. The main tools used are four Maya, Shake, Houdini, and SoftImage. what we commonly use is the first two, so here we will only introduce the installation of Maya and Shake.

Here, our operating system platform is RH9 and the kernel is 2.4.20.

First of all, it is download. MAYA has too many resources on the Internet and can be found through Baidu translation. I will not talk about it much, but Shake is hard to find. We recommend that you download images using the electricity pipeline.

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This is its.

First, install shake. We recommend that you decompress it with winrar in win or use winrar for linux. The format is # winrar e file name.

Decompress two tar packages, one is the main shake package and the other is the cracking package.

Put the downloaded tar package in/usr and run
# Tar xvf sh *. tar
# Tar xvf cr *. tar

Change the shake folder name to shake.
# Cp/crake/libnrcc_lx.so/shake/lib
# Cd crake
#./Lmutil lmhostid

In this case, your hostid will be generated and saved twice later.
# Vi key. dat

Find the HOSTID segment, and paste your hostid in each segment.

After that
# Cp key. dat ../shake/keys

OK. Here, shake is settled on your computer, and then you can launch it. Remember that the command is not a direct shake, but/usr/shake/bin/shake.

Next we will introduce the installation of MAYA. We have installed version 5.0, which is not greedy and fresh. It is enough.

The downloaded package on the Internet generally contains the cracking package and two dependent packages AWCommon-server.

Decompress the package to a folder, for example, in/tmp/maya
# Cd/tmp/maya
# Rpm-ivh *. rpm

The basic installation is OK. The following describes how to solve the license problem.

Go to the folder where the cracked file is stored and find aw. dat.
# Vi aw. dat

Save the hostid as before. Run
#./Aw_keygen aw. dat
# Cd/usr/aw/COM/bin
#./InstallKey

Enter the path of aw. dat on the installation license page, and click install to obtain a successfully installed prompt box to complete the license installation.

The last thing to do is to modify an environment parameter.
# Vi/usr/aw/COM/bin/maya
Find set maya_exec = maya. bin.
Add setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1 on this line

If you change shell to bash shell, add export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL = 2.4.1. Enter maya in the terminal to see the startup screen of maya.

After the installation is complete, remember to delete both the installation package and temporary files, which occupy a lot of space.

We recommend that you enable the DMA transmission mode to improve disk performance. The command is hdparm.