(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Hypershade: make shader nodes Node State=Has No Effect or Blocking act like a true disconnect.  Currently shader nodes seem to ignore Node State. Users would like to be able to flip Node State on a texture node and have Maya act as though the connection has been broken to the mapped attribute. This makes it easy to turn off a texture and then flip it back on later." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "... don't always put lights at the origin. Other software like 3ds Max can create lights at where users click..." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "We have custom menus here which automatically : import Script and launch functions Somehow, when we replace scripts in the big scripts folder, we have to reload them manually or close/re-open Maya. It would be cool that a reload() function launch automatically when you just use the import." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "There is the option to set U and V ranges by hand, however this now requires extra work to figure out what numbers to dial in instead of it being automatic. There are lots of situations where square UVs are not possible. Please reinstate this feature." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Adding and removing of collections in the renderSetup has broken selection Logic. The problem is, that when selection objects in the outliner and clicking on "Add" , those items get added to the simpleSelector node (collection). But subsequently pressing on remove, doesn't remove those items, because the selection for removing items in queried from the simpleSelector StaticSelection box (where all the collection items are listed). Yes, one can double click in the collection menu on an item to select it in the outler, but you can't select multiple items with that. There is also no button doing that. The Button 'select' which would suggest the marked items get selected in the outliner is actually selectinga ll Collection items. The tooltip for "select" says: "Select the nodes in the scene included by this selection" The tooltip for "Select All" says: "Select the nodes in the scene included by this collection" BUT: one does select the items in the collection menu, the other selects the items in the scene/outliner. But they both clearly say: "Select the nodes in the Scene" So the artist would go ahead and select an item in this box, but from now on, The Scene/Outliner Selection is no longer synced with the collection menu. Also once an item got selected in the collection Menu, there is no chance to clear the whole selection. Maya gets more and more fragmented with each release. The Rendersetup Ui is nice and all but when dealing with more complex scenes 50 items+ manually looking for items through the collection menus is counterproductive. The Artists are organizing their scene in the outliner, so please also use the outliner to display Collections. My Suggestions: First to temporarily fix this problem: Sync the outliner selection with the collection items. There is actually never a need to seperate these two. So dont do that. For example: Instead of Collections just use Sets, the Artist can add/remove all items they want to have in a "collection" to the Set, it doesn't break with the logic of the rest of Maya and is much more organized. U can call them partitions if you want." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "The spring ik should be more integrated into maya and include the same ability to scale multiple joint as the rp solver. Right now when scaling the joints move away from the end effector." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Hypershade: When you have the textures tab at the bottom and select a texture, all associated materials should also highlight.  This would be similar to how Multilister use to work." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "If I want to filter a list of 100+ influences to a list that include.. L_leg* and M_spine*, I can not do this easily. I should be able to add the 2 filter strings into the field, but it only takes one.. My workaround is really painful: filter for L_leg* select these, then filter for M_spine* then pin the influences in the UI.. and that's just for 2 filters..." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "When you have a lot of Render Setup Layers it becomes tricky to keep track of all Collections and overrides. Being able to set up a single "RenderGeo" which can be instanced and have its changes apply to all render setup layers would improve render setup a lot.   This can either be achieved by having instanced Collections. Or having Sets include all their members when within a Collection(so you would just edit the membership of that Set instead of the collection itself)." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Would it be possible to have the material viewer use the gpu to render the previews?" Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "When using bridge on a mesh with a negative scale, the result is flipped and cannot be fixed with adjusting the direction parameters. The attached screenshot shows the same mesh and Bridge settings on a mesh with frozen transforms (left) and one negatively scaled on the X axis (right). This only happens when using the "Blend" curve type, "Linear" works just fine!" Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Every time modelling, the caddies dont remember the last settings, so for example, I'm doing bridge and I every time I have to reduce the number of edges to 1. I can use the shortcut G but I dont just do the same operation over and over, I would like them to remember last settings, and also have a reset settings buttons " Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "When I assign a new material to an object the Attribute Editor opens automatically. This doesn't make much sense when the Proprty Editor in the Hypershade window is open. Suddenly there are two Editors for the attributes. In the Hypershade I'm also missing a simple method of creating and assigning a material with a single click." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Create an object, with animation, and 2 animation layers, "BaseAnimation" and "Pulse" Edit > Duplicate Special (duplicate input graph) Object is duplicated with duplicated animation curves, and duplicated animation layers. All duplicated nodes are renamed. The duplicated animation layers do not display in the Animation Layer Editor, and cannot be managed. Please fix the new duplicated layers so they behave normally and can be manipulated in the editor. It would also be handy if there was an option to duplicate the animation curves, but NOT duplicate the animation layers, rather keeping the duplicated object's curves in the same animation layers as its source (essentially duplicating input connections, but only the animation layer connections). This would prevent excessive amounts of animation layers being created." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Allow for multiple twist objects down the spline, not just a start and end since long ropes, tentacles, necks, etc will just candy wrapper.   Add stretchy… keep joints at their relative starting position based on length of curve.   Currently the joints are not translated, which can cause them to pop to different positions on the curve since it is trying to maintain the segment length. Instead, use the distance down the curve… this will require modification of the translations, but is more stable.   Do not require a hierarchy of joints." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "It happens to me all the time that my final rendered sequences are different than my work renders (Arnold Render View) while working on the scene. And testing with enabling/disabling the color management doesn't help. There should be an easy way (a button, perhaps) to make sure that your final renders will have the exact same colors/contrast/saturation etc.than your work renders.   This is really frustrating, I'm losing days because of this. Maybe I'm just stupid, but i never had this sort of problems before color management was introduced into Maya. And still I was able to get my renders look like I wanted. Please, if nothing else, make a tutorial that's understandable to someone who's done 3D more than 20 years." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Allow the original Ik effector to be used as an offset when the aux effector is constrained. This process is currently highly unpredictable. Either the constrained limb will only partially follow the master object or it will follow accurately but there is no way to animate the constrained limb. If the IK limb, mostly the arms, simply had a group node above it, this group could be constrained and the original limb would be free for re-positioning/additional animating. The HIK is so close to being an incredibly adaptable rig but little points like this cause massive headaches." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "The main problem is when you switch to component selection via the context menu for faces, vertices, edges, etc, the selection mode doesn't actually switch to Components so you have to hit F8. And what is worse, is if you change the selection type via the context menu while in Objects mode it doesn't change it for Components mode, so when you hit F8 it goes to the last selection type you used." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "After testing the Time Editor in maya 2018, what appears missing is the ability for the Clips themselves to have the Additive and Override functionalities. (Unfortunately, only Layers associated with the Clips can be set to additive and override.)"   Show More