David Johnson with a post on the path name change in the new Maya Subscription Advantage Pack, where Autodesk has changed the naming of the subscription advantage pack as “2011.5. Check out the post here, with an additional posting here.
“Last week I downloaded and installed the “Maya 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack”. This is really just “Maya 2011 Service Pack 1” with a couple of extras thrown in to sweeten the deal for subscribers.
For some reason, so far unknown to me, the autodesk devs decided to distribute the subscription advantage pack as “2011.5” while continuing to call service pack 1 “2011”. I’m pretty sure the code base for 2011.5 is the same as for 2011 – at least all the 3rd party plugins I’ve tried still load and behave correctly (and usually a version change requires a recompile of 3rd party plugins).”
“By default the subscription advantage pack gets installed to “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack”. I know I could have redirected it to a more sensible and shorter path name, but I like to stick to defaults since they make some things more straight forward and less prone to human error (for example, deployment on a render farm).”