Maya Ideas

Anonymous · ‎05-30-2021

Update Nurbs modeling in Maya, Its 2021 and the tools are 20 years old and could use some makeover. A lot of modelers dont need the full complexity of Alias but still want to model quality nurbs surfaces without requiring a second software package to do so. And please make conversion of subd just like in Alias currently which is how it should be in Maya too for hybrid workflow

Moreno_Abel · ‎09-14-2022

As the title says. XGEN: Destroy it and build it again. The amount of bugs and "errors" is just unforgivable.

reniferziolo · ‎02-15-2021

Hello As Maya is headed into bifrost/procedural direction it would be great to provide good quality tutorials for such tools. For the sake of new users base as well. I would personally love to dive into it and create gorgeous burning trees, sandy deserts etc etc but there isn't enough tuts for a beginner and stuff available on yt looks weak against Houdini.

Anonymous · ‎03-19-2019

Apparently this is a known issue with Arnold where using Aitriplanars don't work when set to pref and using texture reference objects

ruanXKC64 · ‎01-27-2023

If Maya can only recognize any file format of image sequence or video clip that you import into the image plane. I find it very difficult to get the right compression so that a video clip can work or have the right numbering format for an image sequence. It should be able to handle mp4, Prores, h264 etc.

andre.ivankio · ‎01-25-2023

Neither "Transfer Maps" nor turtle's "Texture baking" seem to have options for current pipelines (with more info channels than baseColor and normal). Arnold is even more limited for that. The need to bake final light outside of game engines has become less common, while we always need maps like roughness and metallic. Channel mixing should be handled too. Often each project need a peculiar selection of info channels packed together, like a RGBA texture with metallic, emissiveMultiplier, roughness, teamKeyColor. Maybe a rerouter node/interface. Better if the tool could handle more shaders as input, specially Standard Surface. Even better if the tool could be paired with (or handle itself) atlas generation.

evanyao1 · ‎12-16-2023

So you know how you can select objects that are assigned the same material? Make it so you can select faces in a multimaterial object that are assigned to a given material. Or make it so that Maya doesn't randomly shuffle my materials around for no ****ing reason

Anonymous · ‎06-08-2018

Right now "Save Scene As..." opens to the last folder that you were in for whatever reason. So if you import a model into a lighting scene, then go to "Save Scene As..." it opens the model's folder instead of the lighting scene's folder. This is super annoying. When working with several artists and several assets simultaneously on different jobs, files are accidentally getting saved all over the place, and when people look to find the latest version, it may or may not be located where it's supposed to be.

trevor.adams · ‎04-26-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "Legacy Python 2.7 is starting to cause us issues in our pipeline. PySide2 is the most recent headache but many other distributions are also an issue. Additionally I would also petition Autodesk to compile Maya Python using the same MSC as the standalone Python distribution. This also causes many a headache by preventing version dependent Python modules from being used in Maya without having to recompile them."

Alexx31 · ‎02-19-2022

many other node based softwares have it, but Maya still not: Backdrop nodes to sort everything nicely, to move a bunch of nodes around and to comment. Please consider after many many years some basic UI improvements for the Hypershade, which is the main tool for look development. I have copied screenshots from the suggestions of the Node Editor - the same applies for the Hypershade. (And actually, it would only need one good Editor, that can do the tasks of both Hypershade and Node Editor - the difference would be then just different layouts and panels.) Backdrop nodes let you organize way better (Here a comparison between Maya and Houdini what it means for working with nodes) same for the Hypershade example from Nuke

alexandervrublevsky · ‎06-02-2019

macintosh · ‎11-10-2023

We have Fields and Solvers, we have Nucleus, and we have Bifrost. I'd love to see them all combined, so that the simulation is in a centralized solver, like Bifrost, but the UI is just as easy to use as Nucleus is. (Maybe even let us open up the graph in Bifrost and tweak it for advanced users.) I just don't want the only solution to become having to build a node graph for these kind of simulations. There's a reason I chose Maya over Houdini... don't take that away from me.

JacksonLamme · ‎09-24-2021

Paint effects needs to be completely revamped, they don't even work with the built in renderer without massive rebuilding.

Anonymous · ‎10-29-2019

Most, if not all, Universities and higher educational institutions are unable to install the Quicktime on PCs (Windows), even without the player because there are security issues. AVI is so old and outdated, even Adobe is discontinuing AVI support. I understand that we can still use image sequences, but in classroom environment, it'll be easier and faster for my students to playblast and submit their animations without opening another program to export the image sequence into a viewable video file. Autodesk, can you please provide a MP4 format with H.264 for playblasting in Maya? Thank you!

Anonymous · ‎07-01-2021

While I assume that Bifrost is probably the revolutionary framework tool that some have claimed it is (I only spent about 100 hours into learning bifrost so far) I still see a problem that needs to be pointed out. Bifrost is mainly useful for big studios who have the budget, time and r&d resources to actually benefit from it. Nobody else does because no one who spent their own cash, time and talent on developing new tools will share that with the community. In other words while Bifrost is great on paper the Maya community in general doesn’t profit from all the dev time that goes into it at Autodesk at all. Our user experience isn’t changed our heads are not blown. If AD doesn’t soon spend some of their own dev time to create useful community tools and applications based on Bifrost then this is why Maya will soon lose all relevance to the normal user who can’t sink hundreds of hours into learning how to make proper use of Bifrost. Someone else said it best here on the forum: If I want Houdini then I’ll just download it. What’s important to most users is a great user experience and powerful ready to use tools not Lego bricks to make parts of tools. If there are devs providing them to us great but don’t just put a box of nodes in front of us and call it a day. Don’t get me wrong, I think Bifrost is great and necessary but use it to create ready to use tools and applications that change our perception and experience to the better. As shown above we can’t trust on big studies handing their developments down to us. It won’t happen

Admiral.Pixel · ‎11-28-2018

Hotkey (toggle) disable nodes like in Nuke Backdrop in Hypershade to organise nodes better. https://lesterbanks.com/2016/08/script-helps-keep-maya-node-editor-tidy/

1006138663 · ‎10-28-2021

At present, viewport 2.0 can achieve a good preview effect, but it is far from Blender's eevee. I don't think we need to catch up with eevee in one step. Can we upgrade each version a little instead of discarding it after a little upgrade. For example, as shown in the figure below, the current shadow of aiarealight in viewport 2.0 is only relatively bad, which greatly affects the quality of preview in the actual project. It takes courage to switch to blender or continue to use Maya. I hope Maya can refuel

amaterasu-qbb · ‎12-20-2023

Hi! everyone, Increment and Save is simply trying to version control my file names with a 4-digit number at the end. To be clear, this is a feature I don't want. What I want is, If I Increment and Save a v01 file, it should become v02. When a v99 or higher is reached, a window should pop up to allow the v01 file to be marked v001 and give the user the option of leaving it as it is or changing it. When the date changes, the change should be applied to the date as well. I would like to be able to select the date display as well. YYYYYMMDD or YYYYY-MM-DD or YYYYY-w (number of weeks in a year) That's all from me, but if there is anything else you would like to see added, please reply. Thanks,

trevor.adams · ‎04-27-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "Group stacked UV shells so that they can be packed using 'layout' as one stack. This would be excellent of real time/game UV's. A further extension to this would be to offset the stacked shells to a separate UV tile ( -1, +1 etc) for baking purposes. An even bigger extension to this could be that the stacked UV shells (as long as they are exactly the same as the initial UV count) can be manipulated like an instance of the initial UV shell in the group."

trevor.adams · ‎04-25-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "If you're a student, you get Maya free for three years. After that, there is a considerable jump in price - thousands of dollars. I'd like to see low cost options for those who don't make any money with Maya, with increments for those who do, based on the amount of money they make with it. The game engine Unity3D works this way. It's free until you make $100k per year. Unreal charges 5% of your income, but only if you make a certain amount. A sliding scale for Maya would allow students to continue to use the product long after they leave school." "How about an indie version for just a dollar a day that sat between Maya LT and Full Maya. Include things like MASH, The Modeling toolkit, Some of the more basic UV workflows, The animation timeline without some of the more advanced features. Perhaps disable the use of mel scripting and only give us a few of the more used sculpting tools. Limit the amount of money we are allowed to make per year with this license. Much the same way there is an indie license with Unity or Unreal. Support export and import shaders to work with substance, Unreal, Unity. Handle all types of 3D file formats and work with any renderer we choose as well as have a native renderer like the arnold plugin included with the package. A lot of people cannot afford Maya and this provides at least an entry-level animation and modeling toolset that goes above gaming assets in Maya LT but below full blown studio level licenses."

Update Nurbs modeling in Maya, Its 2021 and the tools are 20 years old and could use some updating

XGEN: Destroy it and build it again.

Good tutorial series for Bifrost and Xgen

Arnold triplanars using pref and texture reference objects for animated objects

Importing an image plane or video for the background too difficult

Update Transfer Maps or Bake Textures tool

Select Faces by Material

"Save Scene As..." should open to the folder where the file is currently located

Upgrade to Python 3.X

BACKDROP nodes for the HYPERSHADE (less clutter, clearer graph and ability to comment)

Maya 2020: New(!!!) node graph, please :)

Bring all of simulation into Bifrost, but not requiring the node graph

Why are Maya Paint Effects so primitive and bad?

New and Updated Playblast Options for Format & Encoder

The problem with Bifrost

Improve Maya Hypershade/Nodegraph Tools for LookDev

viewport 2.0 needs some minor upgrades

Make Increment and Save Smarter!

UV shell grouping

Hobbyist/Indie pricing for Maya

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