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Autodesk provides a variety of online documentation to help you learn, use, and develop applications for Autodesk Maya, Maya Composite and Maya MatchMover. These resources are available in the product and in downloadable formats.

Maya Installation and Licensing Guide

This guide provides detailed information about installing and licensing Maya on all supported platforms. This guide also provides information on installing Maya MatchMover, Maya Composite, and Autodesk Backburner software. In addition, you can find installation information about mental ray for Maya satellite.

Maya2010_InstallationLicensingGuide (pdf - 1168Kb)

Maya Online Help
Maya Help is your comprehensive guide to learning and using Autodesk Maya software. It is an online library of guides to virtually every aspect of the software, including general information about features of Maya, procedural information on how to perform various tasks, tutorials, and an extensive reference section.

View online documentation for Autodesk Maya 2010, and 2009 software.

What’s New in Maya
Find out what new features have been added to Maya from release to release.

Maya Training
Find a variety of training resources for Maya, Maya Composite and Maya MatchMover, including tutorials, videos, instructor-led courses for beginner and advanced users.

Maya Assets
This document describes how Maya Assets, new in Autodesk® Maya® 2009 software, enable complex data to be effectively organized, shared, referenced, and presented to a variety of users in the most appropriate form.

Maya Assets (pdf - 655Kb)

FBX Assets
The FBX Assets document provides a reference for advanced users who want to customize template files and understand in more detail the way that container templates work with Maya Assets.

FBX Assets (pdf - 262Kb)

Nucleus in Autodesk Maya

This document discusses the Maya Nucleus solver's architecture, and how the components of the solver are controlled through the Maya nodes and attributes. This is followed by a more detailed discussion on how to help achieve optimal results with Maya nCloth and nCloth caching, and some frequently used effects.

Nucleus in Autodesk Maya (pdf - 2051Kb)

Maya Composite Documentation

Autodesk provides a variety of online documentation to help you install, learn and use Autodesk® Maya Composite high dynamic range compositing system. These resources are available in the product, and/or in downloadable formats.

Maya Composite User Guide PDF (pdf - 17865Kb)

Autodesk MatchMover Documentation

Autodesk MatchMover is a camera tracking application that automatically captures 3D camera path and camera parameters from 2D video and film image sequences. See the following resources for more information.

MatchMover User Guide (pdf - 10905Kb)

Maya FBX Plug-in Help

This document provides a reference to the Maya FBX Plug-in, which lets you exchange files between Maya and many other packages. The FBX Plug-in help contains descriptions of options, scripting commands, troubleshooting, and tips on exporting or importing files into Maya.

Maya FBX Plug-in Help (pdf - 1803Kb)