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Maya HISTORY
Here is history of Maya’s splash screens for Maya’s 10th anniversary. :-)
If you have any of this 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.0, 2.0 or 1.5 Maya versions,
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Autodesk Maya 2012 Service Pack 1 (26. Aug 2011) [mray 3.9.1.47]
Autodesk Maya 2012 (March 2011)

- DMM (Pixelux Entertaiment) – 1500 elements limit demo – [1.1.8]
- Nvidia PhysX (2.60.0216.1828)
- Python 2.6.4
- MentalRay 3.9.1.36
Autodesk Maya 2011 Service Pack 1 (30. Sep 2010) [mray 3.8.1.33]
Autodesk Maya 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack (29. Sep 2010) [mray 3.8.1.33]
Autodesk Maya 2011 Hotfix 3 (21. Jul 2010)
Autodesk Maya 2011 Hotfix 2 (14. Jun 2010)
Autodesk Maya 2011 Hotfix 1 (10. May 2010)
Autodesk Maya 2011 (6. April 2010)

- Qt 4.5.3 – New Interface [ Nokia - Quantum Toolkit ] dockable UI elements, more flexible editors.
- Large Scenes Performance [Viewport 2.0]
- Color Management [32-bit Render View, LUTs, Contrast, Exposure, Tone Mapping, Gamma]
- Accelerated Skinning Workflow
- Enhancements to Assets and File Referencing
- Non-Destructive Live Retargeting
- 3D Editorial [EDL]
- Python 2.6.4
- PyMEL 1.0 [ Offic. repo. ] [ GoogleCode ]
- MentalRay 3.8.1.26 [ Doesn't contain iray. Iray is part of MentalRay Standalone 3.8+, only. ]
Autodesk Maya 2010 (August 2009)

- unified Unlimited and Complete versions
- Toxik – compositing
- MatchMover – advanced matchmoving
- Backburner – network render queue manager
- 5 additional MentalRay for Maya batch rendering nodes
- Python 2.6.1
- MentalRay 3.7.53.5
Autodesk Maya 2009 Service Pack 1, ver. 10 (14-Apr-2009) – includes over 100 fixes
Autodesk Maya 2009 ver. 10 (August 2008)

- nParticles
- Maya Assets
- Animation Layers
- UV unfolding (interactive)
- Mesh Smooth Rendering
- New Selection Paradigm
- Render Pass Enhancements
- Render Proxy
- Python 2.5.1
- MentalRay 3.7.1.26 (Maya ver. 10)
Autodesk Maya 2008 Extension 2, ver. 9.0.1 (February 2008) – Enhanced Creative Control
Autodesk Maya 2008 Extension 1, ver. 9 (December 2007) – Maya Muscle
Autodesk Maya 2008 ver. 9.0 (September 2007) – Support for Windows Vista

- Smooth Mesh Preview
- Render hardware particles with mental ray
- New Replace Objects feature
- Convert instances to objects
- nCloth: Enhanced Wind Model
- mental ray Sky Portal system
- mia_material_x shader
- Python 2.5.1
- MentalRay 3.6.51.0 (Maya Ext2)
Autodesk Maya 8.5 Service Pack 1 (June 2007)
Autodesk Maya 8.5 (January 2007) – Intel-based Mac OS X

- nCloth (Nucleus solver)
- Customizable menu
- Python 2.4.3
Autodesk Maya 8.0 (August 2006) – First 64-bit release

- Toxik render layers
- HDR (floating-point images)
- Polygon Bridge
- Geometry Caching
- Transfer Polygon Attributes, Polygon Bridge
- Override Viewport with Renderer of Choice
- Image plane z-depth
Alias Maya 7.0.1 (December 2005)
Alias Maya 7.0 (August 2005)

- Full Body IK
- Toon Shader
- Surface Sampler
- ASHLI Plug-in
Alias Maya 6.5.1 (December 2005)
Alias Maya 6.5 (January 2005) – last IRIX Version

Alias Maya 6.0.1 (August 2004)
Alias Maya 6.0 (May 2004)

- Motion Retargeting and Motion Redirecting tools
- Paint Effects on polygons
- Deformers to particles
- Web browser in a Maya panel
- DDS and PNG
A|W Maya 5.0.1 (Oct 2003)
A|W Maya 5.0 (May 2003)

- Mentalray integration
A|W Maya 4.5 (July 2002)

A|W Maya 4.0.2 (May 2002)
A|W Maya 4.0 (June 2001) – no Mac OS X Version

A|W Maya 3.5.1 (September 2002) – Mac OS X only
A|W Maya 3.5 (October 2001) – first Mac OS X Version only
A|W Maya 3.0.1 (Jan 2001)
A|W Maya 3.0 (February 2000) – first Linux Version
A|W Maya 2.5.2 (March 2000)
A|W Maya 2.5 (November 1999)
A|W Maya 2.0 (June 1999)
A|W Maya 1.5 (October 1998) – IRIX only
A|W Maya 1.0.1 (October 1998) – Windows Version
A|W Maya 1.0.1 (June 1998) – IRIX Version
A|W Maya 1.0 (June 1998) – first Windows Version
A|W Maya 1.0 (February 1998)








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