Overview of installation and licensing
Welcome to Autodesk® Maya® 2009! This guide describes the process of installation and licensing Maya 2009 for all supported platforms, along with some information about troubleshooting your installation and licensing problems. Please follow your platform-specific installation instructions:
You can also install a special version of mental ray (satellite) for network rendering on computers that are accessible to the machine running Maya:
If you only want to install the license server tools, see:
When you have finished installing Maya, proceed to the licensing Quick Start section (if you are a new user installing Maya to a single machine) or to the licensing chapter:
If you have problems starting or licensing Maya, please review our troubleshooting guide:
The Maya 2009 installation and licensing process is available in Japanese for the Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® Mac OS® X operating systems. The installation and licensing process will take place automatically in Japanese on a Japanese-language Windows or Mac OS X system.