Maya over the past 5 years
16
Project updates
102
Total enhancements
77
Customer ideas
Maya enhancement timeline
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2024 | 2024.1 featured enhancements for Maya
- LookdevX
- Robust Modeling Tools
- Modern Animation Tools
- Hydra for Maya
- Improvements to Bifrost
- Enhanced Rigging Tools
- Interactive Lighting and Rendering
- Mac M1 Architecture Support
- Time Slider Enhancements
- Multiple Skin Cluster Support Improvements
- Delete Multiple Display Layers
- LookdevX Enhancements
2023 | 2023.1 | 2023.2 | 2023.3 featured enhancements for Maya
- Blue Pencil 2D Drawing Tools
- Cached playback improvements
- Animation performance improvements
- USD across Maya's toolset
- USD in Bifrost
- Bifrost updates
- Enhanced Boolean toolset
- Retopologize enhancements
- Faster manipulation of mesh components
- QuadDraw performance improvements
- New mesh wireframe opacity settings
- Rigging improvements for better precision
2022 | 2022.1 | 2022.2 | 2022.3 | 2022.4 featured enhancements for Maya
- Seamless USD integration
- New Ghosting Editor
- Additive animation clips
- Smooth (Gaussian) filter in the Graph Editor
- Component Tags
- Morph Deformer
- New Sweep Mesh tool
- Create VR for Maya
- Smoother startup experience
- Python 3
- Cached Playback support in the Time Editor
- Peak Removal filter in the Graph Editor
2020, 2020.1, 2020.2, 2020.3, 2020.4 featured enhancements for Maya
- 60+ Animation Features
- Cached Playback updates
- Animation Bookmarks
- Arnold GPU
- Bifrost for Maya
- Viewport Improvements
- Remesh Tool
- Retopologize Tool
- Rigging Improvements
- Native Plugin for Rokoko's Motion Library
- A Guide to Getting Started with the Motion Library Plugin in Maya
- Time Slider Bookmark Improvements: Interactively move and scale bookmarks
2019 | 2019.1 | 2019.2 | 2019.3 featured enhancements for Maya
- Cached Playback
- Arnold updates in Viewport 2.0
- Faster snapping, selection, and scene loading in Viewport 2.0
- Butterworth filter in the Graph Editor
- Key Reducer in the Graph Editor
- Prune and smooth weight options in the Bake Deformer
- New sample characters in the Content Browser
- Pipeline integration improvements
- Render Setup and Light Editor improvements
- Cached Playback updates
- Outliner option in Interface Preferences
- New Launch Scene Lint window tool in Evaluation Toolkit
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