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Mouse
You will need a 3-button mouse to use Maya. This is not optional.
Cable
Please bring an HDMI to mini displayport or thunderbolt cable to connect your PC or Mac laptop to a classroom monitor, it will be larger and easier to work (You should do this at home too.) Look at your laptop to verify the connection.
4K Monitor for home
27 inch, 3840x2160, $200, you can connect your laptop if it will support the resolution. (My little 2014 1366x768 Macbook Air goes up to 2k 1920x1080 with a monitor attached. My 2016 3000x2000 Surface Laptop will change to 4k 3840x2160 by going into the Display settings.)
External Hard drive
You will keep all your assignments on an external hard drive. 500GB or more. This way you can easily use any computer in the lab or your laptop. I recommend the very small Samsung T7 Portable SSD - 1TB - USB 3.2 External SSD $109, SSD is about 25% faster than HDD.
First backup any files and format the drive as exFAT; this way the drive will work on either PC or Mac, and with large files over 4GB. You may need to format this on a Mac.
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Install all this free software on your Mac or PC for the course, this will take all day:
Maya 2023 and an update
On a PC use Firefox, it will be easier.
Go to: https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/maya
Select Sign in, then CREATE ACCOUNT >
Make sure to use your student email
Your account will need to be verified.
Go to Autodesk.com Select Sign in
Go into the User menu under the icon, upper right. 
Select Products and Services
Select Maya
Select 2023, your platform, your language
Choose Install, it will download 2 files
Go to your Downloads folder, double click the installer
Updates
Go to Autodesk.com Select Sign in
Go into the User menu under the icon
Select Product updates
Download the most recent updates for your computer platform, save the files.
AdskLicensing-installer
Autodesk_Maya_2023_2_Update_Windows_64bit_dlm_001_002.sfx
Autodesk_Maya_2023_2_Update_Windows_64bit_dlm_002_002.sfx
Go to your Downloads folder, double click the installers
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Download and install the Unity Hub
https://store.unity.com/download
Create an account
Click on the male icon
Select Create a Unity ID
Check terms of service, click on Download Unity Hub. Go to your downloads folder
Run UnityHubSetup.exe to install software
Answer yes to firewall questions.
Accept license agreement and click Next
Select Download files to temporary location, Click Next
This will bring you to the Preferences->License page
Click Manage License
Login
Click ACTIVATE NEW LICENSE
Select Unity Personal
Select I don't use Unity in a professional capacity.
Click the left arrow Preferences to get back to the main section
Install a Unity version
Start the Unity Hub
Go to Installs
Click Install Editor
Select 2021.3.10f1 LTS (Select the latest LTS version)
Click Install
Select WebGL Build Support
(PC: Microsoft Visual Studio Community and Documentation are already selected.)
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OBS Studio
Screen Grab software for documenting VR projects
Choose your OS
https://obsproject.com/download
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Video Players
Quicktime 7 for mac and 7.7.9 for PC (Your mac came with a different version of quicktime, not as functional.)
MPC-HC only PC, video player that plays 4K and h.265 codecs.
Choose Download Mega
Choose Server 1
You may want to use VLC as well.
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FTP Software
PC: WinSCP https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
Mac: Filezilla https://filezilla-project.org
Be careful to not install the optional software!
File protocol: SFTP
Host Name: file.design.ucla.edu
Port: 22
User ID: Your login
/data/classes/Fall22/156/drop
or /home/users/yourlogin/myClasses/Fall22-156/drop
FYI The temp drive is located: /mnt/tempdrive/personal_space
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Mac Stuffit Expander
Mac users will need this.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stuffit-expander-16/id919269455?mt=12
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Adobe Substance 3D Painter
Install this through Adobe Creative Cloud, make sure you login as ucla.edu in order to acquire your free Adobe software through UCLA.
Please install After Effects and Photoshop too.
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