Visual effects pipeline | Maya, Houdini and freeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Modulok <modulok at gmail.com> (Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:41:37 -0600):

[Full quote for the benefit of the emulation@ readers]

> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm looking for a suitable operating system to setup a scalable visual
> effects pipeline on...freeBSD is a candidate, but I need to know if it will
> run the tools we use. Thus:
> 
> - Has anyone run Maya (the visual effects software) on freeBSD? Maya runs on
> win/mac/irix/linux. Though there is no 'official' release for freeBSD...has
> anyone successfully used it?
> 
> - Along similar lines, has anyone run Houdini (also, some visual effects
> software) on freeBSD?
> 
> Any help with this would be much appreciated.
> -Modulok-

I want to add: if someone tried but if failed, we're interested in the
failure reasons over there in emulation at . If it is because of missing
support in the kernel, we may be able to get it working around the end
of the summer, but we need to know how it fails.

Bye,
Alexander.

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