Autodesk has announced the release of Maya 2020, adding over 60 updates for animators and updates to the graph editor and time slider. Other features include:
- Cached Playback: New preview modes promise faster animation playback and more predictable results, layered dynamics caching, and more efficient caching of image planes.
- Animation bookmarks: The ability to mark, organize, and navigate through specific events in time and frame playback ranges.
- Bifrost for Maya: Performance improvements, Cached Playback support, and new MPM cloth constraints.
- Viewport improvements: The ability to interact with and select dense geometry or a large number of smaller meshes faster in the viewport and UV editors.
- Modelling enhancements: New Remesh and Retopologize features.
- Rigging improvements: New matrix-driven workflows, nodes for precisely tracking positions on deforming geometry, and a new GPU-accelerated wrap deformer.
The release also includes Arnold 6, which can now be used for production rendering on both the CPU and GPU, as well as performance enhancements and new simulation features to Bifrost, the visual programming environment in Maya.
To see a full list of what’s new, visit the What’s New page in the Maya documentation
Wow! sound features and colors, that’s all what i need.
The timeline tagging feature is pretty neat.
Yes TDs and Animators around here love this new version.
Good work this time Autodesk.
Nice update !
Well done, let’s hope they share some tech with the 3dsmax team.
The three rules of 3dsmax feature development:
Rule 1) Maya have to have it first. No exceptions.
Rule 2) After 3-5 iterations, we can probably TALK about providing 3dsmax users a toned down version of it.Maybe.PERHAPS.
Rule 3) If for some reason rule 2 doesn’t apply, please refer to rule 1.
I dont think so somehow…
No trace of USD…
Arnold USD implementation from Autodesk is public for everyone on github: https://github.com/Autodesk/arnold-usd
I know, but having it already integrated in maya is quite different than having to install it manually. You need some familiarity to make it work, is not just install.exe and it works.
anyway, a part from this it looks like some improvement are made, esp in rig and anim. Extremely slowly tho.
If you’re not technically capable of getting it installed you’re not going to get very much from USD. Not trying to be shitty.
Houdini comes with usd integrated, you can directly use it without much hassle. You can try and explore how it works, it’s easier to understand and to use. Plus it is native, meaning you deal directly with usd data inside houdini, in Maya it is converted to a Maya scene, so as in katana and other softwares.
From your comment is clear that you don’t know houdini. Also it doesn’t makes much sense honestly, crafting a tool and using it are 2 separate things. You can use a tool without knowing how it is made. Maya for example is like that, full of black boxes tools that most of the people can just use as they are without having the technical knowledge of how they work inside.
Autod simply doesn’t risk, they wait for others to risk and innovate, then they buy the ones that survives.
Anyway enjoy the usd installation
Now waiting for indie version in Europe!
Some nice features here.
Also the remesh and retopo function are available since at least 2018, typing “polyRetopo” or “polyRemesh” as MEL commands. (I guess it’s been improved now).
nice updates
very nice Update for riggers and animators 🙂
next generation Rigging for maya incoming .
3DS Max animation, rigging, simulation, particle and VFX tools needs also updates! – since ages! …the 2020 update was more an 2019.3.1a Version than a round release.
AD forgot CAT,PF,Amosphere Effect,Biped….for long time
Well, you will get Bifrost at some point in the future.
I love 3dsmax but it’s so horrible that these tools don’t get any serious overhaul… 🙁
Well, CAT is dead (Source ships with the SDK), as well as ParticleFlow and the other tools mentioned.None of these will receive any updates beyond usual bug fixes.
What;s new?
Version number.
My thoughts exactly