Releases don't have up-to-date Maya2Egg converters

[benchang]

The installers from Panda3d.org have maya2egg converters, but not always maya2egg for the most recent version of Maya. Since Autodesk puts out a new release of Maya every year, it is a hassle to keep up. Many users are forced to upgrade every year, though - for example, students and universities, because Autodesk only makes the most recent version available under the educational license. So while sticking with e.g. Maya 2008 is a reasonable choice for many studios, perversely it's something that colleges often can't do.

The good news is that maya2egg will build and run fine using the 30-day trial free download of Maya. It will also build and run fine without setting up licensing, so there's no need to purchase Maya.

[rdb (rdb)]

All right, I'm downloading the trials for Maya 2013 for Mac OS X and 32-bits Windows, I'll see if I can extract the SDKs from them.

[rdb (rdb)]

1.8.1 Windows builds will support up to Maya 2013 (32-bits), and the Mac OS X builds will have up to Maya 2011.