Maya already has some sculpting features. It would be nice if these were as advanced as Mudbox or Zbrush. Blender has these features and I don't really see a reason to have it in a seperate program. Also the possibilty to paint textures would be very nice. So often I just want to paint something up and to go to another software package, or photoshop is a bit silly. To be able to do it al in Maya would be amazing.  Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Currently there are basic math nodes, but it would nice to have more advanced ones built in. I have seen many TD's create their own, myself included, but they are so easy why not do it yourselves? Having them built in will avoid having to compile for other platforms or distributing them, the less dependencies the better."   "http://www.cgdna.com/web/mathematic-nodes-main"   "This is what I've been cooking and re-cooking for years, as have a number of different people:  http://www.thejaco.com/wp/tools/rf_mathnodes/  Get in touch if you want the source, but frankly speaking just tell any developer over there "it's a wrap of cmath" and they will know exactly what it is, and that it only takes a couple hours to implement the lot. It's such an important yet trivial set of operations there's no reason to prioritize, all of cmath is in the standard library for a reason 🙂"   "Fixing quaternion functions (quaternions don't have cross product). Constants  E  PI  TWO_PI  INV_PI  SQRT_TWO  EPSILON  INFINITY  More... Basic Types  Float  Vector  Color  Quaternion  Matrix Basic Arithmetic Operations  Addition  Subtraction  Multiplication  Division Mathematical Functions  Nth Power  Nth Root  Modulo  Minimum  Maximum  Factorial  Exponential  Logarithm  Floor  Ceil  Truncate  Sign  Round  Absolute Geometric Functions  Sine  Cosine  Tangent  Cotangent  Secant  Cosecant  Arcsine  Arccosine  Arctangent  Arccotangent  Arcsecant  Arccosecant  Hyperbolic Sine  Hyperbolic Cosine  Hyperbolic Tangent  Hyperbolic Cotangent  Hyperbolic Secant  Hyperbolic Cosecant  Hyperbolic Arcsine  Hyperbolic Arccosine  Hyperbolic Arctangent  Hyperbolic Arccotangent  Hyperbolic Arcsecant  Hyperbolic Arccosecant Vector Functions  Cross  Dot  Normalize  Magnitude  Rotate  Rotate By Quaternion Color Functions  Clamp  Luminance  More... Quaternion Functions  Dot  Normalize  Magnitude  Conjugate  Inverse Matrix Functions  Inverse  Transpose  Determinant Conversion Functions  Euler To Quaternion  Quaternion To Euler  More... Custom Nodes  Expression  Plot (2D and 3D)" Show More

As much as I like quaddraw and it's great shortcuts it feels like it's lagging behind on a few features. One of the more useful being an easy way to retopo an arm/leg/fingers etc.. like the strokes tool from 3dcoat https://streamable.com/r8okll it is also amazing for laying out base topology for eyes and edge flow and I find it better than patch tools in that regard too (patch tools are still great for filling larger areas)  Here's an example but I'm using a mouse quickly so it's messy https://streamable.com/kwj57d Show More

Can we please add new capture formats abilities to Maya's playblast? Both AVI and Mov/QT are dead containers in 2018. MP4, Mkv are all pretty standard containers these days and cross platform.. And for encoders and decoders.. Windows 7 and up supports both encoding and decoding of H.264 video. So free for all... no need for commercial encoders. And no "I can't play your video" any more from a bit up to date clients 🙂 There is also the new AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) thats out now.. It's royalty-free. Supported by a whole scala of companies and seems to be the next best thing since sliced bread - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Software Show More

Since years there are a lot of unanswered requests for many improvements of basic tools. Such as usability of Node Graph, Hypershade, Construction history, Bevel, TimeEditor with Blendshapes, Containers, Rigs, Viewport, Performance, compatibilities between different packages of Maya or with I/O... just to name a few topics of my scope.   On the other hand all developement resources seem to go into Bifrost (*at least from what I see), which does only help for a narrow field of tasks and will only help a few people. Please start overhauling Maya in the basics. When I need Houdini, I will just download it, but when I use Maya, I want it to be reliable fast software with great UI and interoperability. Show More

Or improve the sculpting tools inside Maya. It would be amazing to be able to sculpt without the need of using Zbrush anymore. Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "I would like to see a Spline Toolkit and splines that worked like the splines in 3ds Max [faster/easier than Maya's curve tools.]. I often switch to 3ds Max to work with splines which eventually get converted to polygon objects and brought back into Maya. I love how in 3ds Max I can manipulate a spline the same way I can in AutoCad or even Illustrator. I can fillet a point, weld points together, etc."   "I want a better fillet on curves.  Basically just the same feature as in MAX where you can select all the vertices on a curve and fillet them in one step. In Maya you now have to select all the vertices, separate them into several curves, then fillet two curves at the time, then the next two, then the next etc, then attach the curves back together" Show More

- improve smoothing algorithms - prevent random weight assignments (this even happens to locked joints) - overall less buggy and random - a layering system like NG skinning tool features - add symmetry option - paint weights on UVs  - an integrated weights table like the component editor that is more user friendly  - make sure that the feature to only paint selected verts works with the marking menu. (a current bug) - a visual joints picker (front/side) so you don't have to scroll down a list of 50 + joints - more procedural (perhaps a modifier stack) in order to be more non-destructive - add 'weight sets' for multiple skin clusters on the same object. rigging on blendshapes works now, but it would be cool to be able to do it all on one mesh. Considering animation and rigging is supposed to be one of maya strongest features, the painting of weights feels very outdated and clunky. I hope this will be improved! Show More

Pixar's sculpting brushes should be implanted in Maya. https://graphics.pixar.com/library/Kelvinlets/ https://graphics.pixar.com/library/DynaKelvinlets/   Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "....please give us voronoi shatter to replace old shatter that doesn't work properly." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   https://vimeo.com/216753419 http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Kelvinlets/index.html  Show More

For the love of god, Blender, Houdini, & even Cinema4D are getting crazy updates. Not just performance improvements and occasional new features that sometimes feel like somthing that was missing for a long time, but actually quality updates with big leaps each year in various different fields. Maya is one of the most expensive 3D softwares for a reason, and it is also the industry standard. The updates however, do not feel worth the price.    There are tons of great ideas here seemingly neglected. For example, a 3ds Max like modifier stack system, that's been on the top of this board for YEARS, however it is still marked under review. I am not denying that there are some good updates, like the Boolean toolkit & the Sweep Mesh tool, but Maya could use a lot more improvement in terms of polygon modeling.   Not only that, but just overall, a great improvement in the updates Maya gets would be phenomenal, something comparable to what we see happening with other software. As a sidenote, fixing bugs & stability issues should definitely still be kept as a major priority.  Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "... (like in Houdini, Softimage ICE, Fabric Engine Sub-graphs).   Basically, we need a functionnlity similar to:  - Houdini "Digital Assets"  - Softimage ICE "Compounds"  - Fabric Engine "SubGraphs" We should be able to:  - Group nodes by consolidating their inputs and outputs into one (implode)  - Ungroup node (explode)  - Register a group for future reuse (should be versionnable)  - Change the used version for a registered group instance  - Export/Import a registered group This would greatly enhance the rigging/fx workflow and allow people to share their work on the internets. ex: https://vimeo.com/90308439"   "Would be perfect to be able to group or concatenate a set of node and only publish the important inputs and outputs." Show More

Maya's biggest problems right now are: Chaff: Tools which linger on in a semi-functional state for legacy reasons, for example: Paint Effects--completely closed L-system, poor renderer support, doesn't talk to the rest of Maya Vector renderer--essentially abandonware image filter at this point Shatter--hard-coded one-off operation which hasn't been updated in decades cMuscle--clunky, semifunctional, should have been replaced with a FEM solution a decade ago Smaller stuff like 'joint stiffness' which never worked and should just be taken out, closestPointOnMesh which still doesn't support pickable uvSets, and so on 'Interactive' binding using influence objects (themselves different from the new deformer falloffs, which are different from MASH falloffs, which are different from Bifrost falloffs, etc), which no-one ever uses in production Poor integration: Frameworks which, although powerful, do not share data easily, recreate functionality found elsewhere, impose new interaction paradigms and generally feel 'tacked-on', for example: XGen--buggy and bureaucratic MASH--good for mograph but essentially a 'Bifrost lite' when they should be unified; looks like it could be leveraged for rigging but runs too slowly for that Bifrost; in essence a 'hosted application' that needs clunky workarounds to talk to the Maya scene and gets schooled by Blender's "geometry nodes" in terms of integration The sculpting toolkit, tacked on from Mudbox, omits basics such as multires and textures, clunks out when you push its interaction The poly modelling toolkit, bought as a plugin and shoved in; Maya struggles to preserve its context around snapping / live surfaces etc.; other mesh tools clearly operate under a different 'system' Artisan (hopelessly outdated for texture painting, replicates some sculpt tools, diverges for symmetry etc) Asset containers which were shoved in and then abandoned without any support for the (then newer) Node Editor, persistent keying bugs and so on Maya just needs 1-2 versions without any new features and, instead, a drive to modernise, clean up and integrate the package so that the different bits can either talk to each other better, or get reimplemented in a unified fashion. Show More

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.     Show More