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Crash Maya to save your project

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Hi! With this blog post I want to describe the internals of MayaCrasher, a tool for Windows I wrote months ago. This software is targeted to 3D artists who use Maya on a daily basis. What does it do? Simple: It saves your project when nothing else can help you. For example, Maya is frozen and you can only terminate it using Task Manager but, if you do that, you’ll lose all unsaved data. Now you have an alternative! Open this tool, a Maya’s “Fatal Error” will appear and your project will be saved! How can it accomplish such a noble task? Enjoy this post! Autodesk Maya is a 3D modeling and animation software used both in videogame and film industry. It is available for both Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s a powerful and customizable software, but sometimes this complexity hides bugs that make it hang or crash when you least expect it. When Maya crashes, a window informing you about the crash appears and, if you are lucky, it saves your project in a temporary directory. This directory is u

Hi! With this blog post I want to describe the internals of MayaCrasher , a tool for Windows I wrote months ago. This software is targeted to 3D artists who use Maya on a daily basis. What does it do? Simple: It saves your project when nothing else can help you. For example, Maya is frozen and you can only terminate it using Task Manager but, if you do that, you’ll lose all unsaved data. Now you have an alternative! Open this tool, a Maya’s “Fatal Error” will appear and your project will be saved! How can it accomplish such a noble task? Enjoy this post! What is Maya Autodesk Maya is a 3D mode

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