Maya 2009 and Snow Leopard

[zarusoba]

I've just installed Snow Leopard on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz iMac 4MB RAM and there are some issues.

(Modest system for 3D but generally runs fine).

Playblast doesn't work, that is it won't open a Quicktime window.

Maya also changed my character's colours for no reason.

I noticed that Autodesk has Service Pack 1 available. Do I need to install this? I bought this app in June (installed from a CD).

[rewizz]

Same thing happened to me. (greyscale viewport or strange colors).
You can turn high quality renderer on and your shaders will show up correctly.

But I think we'll have to wait for the fix...

[KevDiggity]

I did a clean install of Leopard and then re-installed all my apps from original DMGs. I can't get Maya 2009 to start (in the installer if you click "Customize" you see that "Maya core 2009" is grayed out . . .)

Anyone else run into this? Maya 2010 installs fine, but not 2009 :mad:

[beersy001]

I did a clean install of Leopard and then re-installed all my apps from original DMGs. I can't get Maya 2009 to start (in the installer if you click "Customize" you see that "Maya core 2009" is grayed out . . .)

Anyone else run into this? Maya 2010 installs fine, but not 2009 :mad:

I kinda have had the same problem, i bought a new iMac 2.9Ghz 4GB and tried to install maya after i had upgraded to Snow Leopard and the actual maya core is also grayed out, am i going to have to switch to Maya 20010 because i have just bought a new book for 2009 :(


Paul

[KevDiggity]

Someone else figured this out online, and I thought I'd share it here with you guys:

One way to get around the stupid grayed out Maya core 2009 error is to install Maya 2009 on a Leopard machine and then transfer it to Snow Leopard.
1. Install "Maya 2009 core" on Leopard disk or partition
2. Install everything else (since 09 core is grayed out) on Snow Leopard
3. Transfer contents of /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009 from Leopard drive to the same folder in Snow Leopard
NOTE: One folder is created under both installs, I believe it's the "docs" folder, so be sure to look inside those folders before simply replacing one with the other.

Hope that helps! It's been working for me thus far . . . :cool:

[ickyptang]

What if you already have Maya 2009 installed on a Leopard machine? Will it run fine if you upgrade to Snow Leopard?

I actually have both Maya 2009 and 2010 installed, and need both for teaching/grading purposes... should this prevent me from having the Snow Leopard upgrade installed?

[zarusoba]

Here are Autodesk's qualification charts.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=13583898

Neither Maya 2009 nor 2010 are qualified to run on Snow Leopard.

[ashrafgh]

basically the auto desk coders were lazy and hard coded the version into their install scripts.



copy the maya2009.pkg to your computer. make it editable chmod 666
right click on it and click using "show contents"

than go into the Maya_core2009.pkg using the rightclick "show contents"

edit installationCheck file within the resources directory


towards the end


change the list of os versions in the group above the command that says

echo "OS version is valid"

and put into that list |10.*|10.6|10.6.* at the end within the parentheses


now it will install

[MattieP]

ashrafgh is right.

I opened installationCheck with textEdit and then copied:

10.4|10.4.*|10.5|10.5.*)
echo "OS version is valid" >> /tmp/InstallationCheck.out
exit 0
;;

and added

|10.*|10.6|10.6.*)
echo "OS version is valid" >> /tmp/InstallationCheck.out
exit 0
;;

and it worked fine. Thank you very much ashrafgh. I've been having a lot of trouble with my snow leopard install and this was a helpful fix!

[tomoya]

you could simply replace it with:



case $VER in
10.0|10.1|10.0.*|10.1.*|10.2|10.2.*|10.3|10.3.*|10.4|10.4.*)
echo "OS version too old" >> /tmp/InstallationCheck.out
exit `expr $FAIL + $MSG_TOO_OLD`
;;

*)
echo "OS version is valid" >> /tmp/InstallationCheck.out
exit 0
;;

[purgpow]

basically the auto desk coders were lazy and hard coded the version into their install scripts.



copy the maya2009.pkg to your computer. make it editable chmod 666
right click on it and click using "show contents"

than go into the Maya_core2009.pkg using the rightclick "show contents"

edit installationCheck file within the resources directory


towards the end


change the list of os versions in the group above the command that says

echo "OS version is valid"

and put into that list |10.*|10.6|10.6.* at the end within the parentheses


now it will install

Have any of you had any graphic problems with maya 2009 and snow leopard?
i;;m having this problem link below.

http://www.damnitmen.com/Junk/Maya%20Mac%20.jpg

All the lines of the ghosting are from the Drag Select box.

I rolled my OS back to 10.5.8 and the problem went away.

Any one know any fixes of the snow leopard problem with Maya

[chrono1081]

Anyone able to post a short solution on how to use chmod to make the InstallationCheck editable? I keep getting Permission denied errors.

[chrono1081]

Anyone? :'(

Last thing I tried locked me out of my profile : /

[chrono1081]

Bump

[MsAndry]

I was absolutely stymied, trying to install Maya on my iMac in Snow Leopard until I found this thread tonight.

What I did: I dragged the MacOSX folder off my mounted Maya 2009 dmg to my desktop. That's all I needed to do to make it editable.

Followed ashrafgh's directions for finding the InstallationCheck.exec file but I'm not command line literate, so I used MattieP's method and opened it with Text Edit; changed that pesky line to read:

10.4|10.4.*|10.5|10.5.*|10.*|10.6|10.6.*)

Then I saved and closed the file, installed Maya, and voila! It works!

Thank you guys so so SOOOO much! I'm in your debt. :)

[fiercetiger224]

Has anyone tried using Pacifist to install it?

[gigglezx2]

i change the versions and installed it but when i go to the Autodesk maya application and the maya icon is not there for me to open.....
any suggestions?

[chrono1081]

It doesn't work for me either.

In the part where it says "use CHMOD 666" it never explains how to use it or what to type in.

I'm not a unix guru and googling how to use it brings up pretty much nothing applicable just like looking at the man pages : /

[kwahamot]

I downloaded the service pack (sp1a) for Maya 2009 and it installed fine on Snow Leopard. Now I have the missing application file, etc., and it runs fine so far.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=12715497&linkID=9242259

chmod 666 command needs to be run from the Terminal app on OS X. If you're changing the permissions of a file then you need to navigate (cd) to the directory where the file is located, and type chmod 666 my.file (replacing my.file with the actual name of the file whose permissons you want to change). Be careful changing permissions, you can wreak havoc with your system.

[vitor fraga]

I've used Pacifist to install...
and works.
I simply opened the maya2009.pkg and install
good luck

[StudioHitori]

I've just installed Snow Leopard on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz iMac 4MB RAM and there are some issues.

(Modest system for 3D but generally runs fine).

Playblast doesn't work, that is it won't open a Quicktime window.

Maya also changed my character's colours for no reason.

I noticed that Autodesk has Service Pack 1 available. Do I need to install this? I bought this app in June (installed from a CD).

I had the same problem. So I created a script for it:

http://blog.studiohitori.com/post/391648324/maya-2009-on-snow

Fingers crossed,

Toc

[cdsuggs]

This worked for 2008 version as well. Thanks for the tip, my man.


basically the auto desk coders were lazy and hard coded the version into their install scripts.

copy the maya2009.pkg to your computer. make it editable chmod 666
right click on it and click using "show contents"

than go into the Maya_core2009.pkg using the rightclick "show contents"

edit installationCheck file within the resources directory

towards the end

change the list of os versions in the group above the command that says

echo "OS version is valid"

and put into that list |10.*|10.6|10.6.* at the end within the parentheses

now it will install

[gohanmzt]

Thank You very much! I waited until yesterday to update to 10.6.2 and Maya didn't want to install. I read this and now I have Maya back.

Thanks again

[balfatale]

Will this work for maya '10?

[Sonegrund]

hi guys, hope people still follows this thread.

My maya 2009 just stopped work on my Macbook pro. I have the 10.6 snow verition, it was working nicely no problems at all until like 2 weeks ago. it just never started again. Only the script editor showed up with some errors:


// Error: file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/startup/layerEditor.mel line 4137: Could not find attribute named "defaultRenderLayer.precompTemplate" //
// Error: Fur::executeCommand MayaState: (kFailure): Unexpected Internal Failure //
// Error: file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/startup/autoLoadPlugin.mel line 46: initializePlugin function failed (Fur) //
// cgfxShader 4.4 for Maya 2009.0 (Apr 8 2009)
// MayaLive version 2009 Service Pack 1a// Error: file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/others/addMenuItemSafe.mel line 63: Object not found: mainRenderMenu. //
// Error: file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/live/mlCreateUI.mel line 155: Object not found: . //


Has it happened to anyone else? is it a mel error? Does anyone know how to solve it?

Cheers