[Bryan Bush] "I don't think Maya's paint effects was ever sold as an AE plug-in."
Yes, it was, back in around 2000 as I recall. We were at SIGGRAPH 2000 in New Orleans when it was being shown.
The plug-in died a quick and ugly death. It came out and had installation issues that made it a nightmare to keep activated and the company -- rather than fixing the issues -- seemed more predisposed to letting it die.
I had a copy once and it worked for a short while.
The Maya Paint FX installation issues were
almost as big a pain in the ass as Adobe's new licensing scheme. (Kathlyn and I each bought the Master Collection and neither of us has access to all of the tools. Neither of us can load Encore DVD -- which is why we bought the thing in the first place -- and Kathlyn's license tells her that she isn't authorized to use Acrobat either.)
Maybe the Maya Paint FX team wrote the new Adobe installer and licensing system protocols.
That may be a likely bet...
Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net
