Maya Tests.. Who Can Help With The Mel?

[admin]

I've got my old maya tests based on maya 1.0. thorough testing called the "highend tests" that are completely automated portions that test almost every part of Maya. Though they dont fully work in the new versions of Maya. Anyone up for modifying them and bringing them up to work with the current version?

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Do you mean creating the Maya benchmark from scratch or just modifying the current benchmark? I'm using Maya Unlimited 7.0 and I should have some free time coming up soon if you want me to help with the conversion, etc.

Regarding benchmarks wouldn't the SPECviewperf be more beneficial to cover a variety of tests for various systems (Linux, Windows and OSX). There's also SPECapc for Maya that consists of 30 individual tests, 27 of which are run three times. The final scoring is based 70 percent on graphics, 20 percent on CPU performance, and 10 percent on I/O.

If you want individual application benchmarks for the software listed in the forum maybe Beaker can create a Shake benchmark and EdHarris can create one for XSI.

[admin]

Yeah im just talking about modifying the tests. They are Maya specific. Im not too impressed with SPECviewperf as how it relates to specific apps. Granted I havent done testing in a while but when I did only the software specific tests we created told a true performance expectation.

I'll upload the files and send you the link.

We also have some old XSI ones... ed are you up for updating them? They may still work.. I doubt it.. I had hired a guy in softimage to write them, so they rocked when they worked

Will

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Yeah im just talking about modifying the tests. They are Maya specific. Im not too impressed with SPECviewperf as how it relates to specific apps. Granted I havent done testing in a while but when I did only the software specific tests we created told a true performance expectation.

I'll upload the files and send you the link.

We also have some old XSI ones... ed are you up for updating them? They may still work.. I doubt it.. I had hired a guy in softimage to write them, so they rocked when they worked

Will

Sorry I've been busy for a while. I'll look forward to receiving the file from you. Will you be hosting it on an FTP server for me to download or just sending it by email. What is the approximate file size?

As for SPEC I did finally receive a reply and they're going to work on releasing an update to their SPECapc Maya test for Linux, Windows and OSX. The current version is only for Maya 6.5 and runs on Windows only. I mentioned to them several studios that use Linux in their pipeline could benefit with a Linux port. As well Maya is ported to OSX and reason enough to offer an OSX port of their benchmark test.