The 10.5 upgrade comes as 2 DVD's
MAXON announced release 10.5 in October 2007 making it 12 months since Release 10 came out. In the past few years MAXON has brought out a .5 upgrade the following year so many people were expecting an upgrade around about this time although like in 2006 Maxon chose not to make any announcement at Siggraph but waited I assume until the update was ready for distribution.
.5 updates traditionally don't bring radical new enhancements or features with these being left to the full number upgrade. However there's some enhancements like X-Refs, Mocca / Character Animation new deformers and tools plus the Lighting tool that are pretty significant. There's lots of minor enhancements, tweaks etc. Some arguably that should have been in Release 10.0 but at least they're here now. In addition there's a superb Character Animation tutorial DVD but more on that later. MAXON has also fixed some bugs that didn't make it into the 10.1 update earlier this year and some of the bugs fixed were major bugs and we'll mention some of them during the review.
It's not possible to cover every single new thing in 10.5 in a review but we'll cover most of them. To see a list of the enhancements here's a pdf file taken from the 10.5 documentation that you can download that lists all of the enhancements. Click here to download the 10.5 what's new list.
Our Release 10 review is here in case you haven't read that. This includes a number of tutorials that demonstrate using the new tools etc that came in Release 10.
The upgrade consists of 2 DVD's.
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The 10.5 upgrade comes as 2 DVD's |
Review by C4D Cafe © 2007