(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)   "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)   "The Render View could be made to be much more useful. A proper render history view with thumbnails that keeps every current render for that scene, it is simple to clear them all later, and annoying to have to press keep image every time. There are many other features that could be added. Cinema 4D has done a very could job with their current image viewer so that is a good place to start. I would love to have a feature set similar to that render view. Also something that is just more responsive overall while rendering. Being able to zoom and maintain full control of what is happening while the render is taking place."   "... doing a render in maya locks up the entire program until it's finished! How about the ability to render and work at the same time?"   "- A threaded Render View to be able to manipulate Maya stuffs during rendering.  - A well tested and crash safe progressive rendering in the Render View because now, many will use progressive rendering to have a quick feedback of the whole lighting.  - You should be able to click on a pixel and have a menu with three entry: Material/Light/Geometry (and maybe others like Textures). Each of this three entry should list a list of material/light/geometry used by the samples of this pixel. Once you've selected a material/light or geometry from the list, it should show it in the Attribute Editor. This is a major feature that could increase a lot the whole rendering workflow.  - Possibility to display render layers directly in the Render View.  - In a "Render history list", you should have a list of every render you've made (with thumbnail of course), this list should stay, even if you close your session. A button with "clear render history" could be provided.  - From this render history, you could define a "A" and a "B" render (see the next part).  - A Diff tool should help to check what pixels are differents from different renders (A and B).  - A wipe tool (left/right, top/bottom, or manual, like Nuke one) should help to quickly change from the image A to the other (B).  - A textual diff tool should display render time differences (Between A and B).  - A "watched nodes" list could be provide. For every render you launch, the attributes values would be stored and, with A and B, you could compare two render (in the Render View, you have the both render images with, below each of them, a list of different values in your watched nodes). This could help a lot during lookdev and/or tweaking.  - Exposure/Gamma shouldn't be changed in the Attribute Editor. It should be changed directly in the Render View and the Render View should be 32bit by default.  - Addind textual note to an entry of the render history.  - GLSL shaders on the Render View with layer access.  - A one click way to save every render in the Render History List with a preseted naming pattern (foo.####.exr) and file options (compressions).  - A threaded Render View (yes, again 😉 ) to be able check your Render History (and every idea I've purpose) during the current render and start to tweak some others attributes for the next render." 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

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "It's common in my work to use a couple of base reference files throughout a project, so it is VERY common to accidentally create nested duplicate references of these base files when creating references. Simply ignoring nested duplicate references should be the default behavior I think i.e. when you import/create a newly referenced file, and it already contains within it references that already exist in the file you are currently working in they should be disregarded." Show More

 (Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Often in game dev your Maya scene might have more than 1 objects that you want to export. Sometimes you have 100. Manually renaming the FBX export file in the Game Exporter can become very tedious. If you have already exported this asset once and your iterating it, and your overwriting your file in your Unity project, manually typing the name and having it match up to successfully replace leaves a large margin for error. At minimum we need a file browser dialogue on that to circumvent this. But ideally something cleverer that uses the mesh node name for the fbx file and / or allow an override to be stored with the mesh and / or have a user editable list of "Export Sets" where you can easily have objects in the set and be able to export them with the name of the FBX file saved with the set (and relevant options). I know this is kinda of there right now change the drop down to "Export Object Set". But you can't tie file names / options to each set. Also using it is a bit cumbersome and editing the memberships / seeing the content isn't accessible in the GE. And the same for animation takes. plenty of scenes have more than 1 character in and it and often will have multiples takes on each, so deleting and recreating them manually is a real pain. And then, we're not too far away from a batch export to do with your "Export Sets". Thanks" Show More

Offer a limit for the amount of nodes allowed in an object's construction history (to auto-collapse up to the last [X] number of recent history nodes).  This should improve performance, and remove the need to delete history every few minutes. Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "All are enabled by default and the user disable what he wants to hide very simple. Now I have to disable or enable plus invert shown plus show all and clear below (which do the same thing) that is besides the option in first display menu" Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "It recently happened to me that my animation layer count increased. When there are more than some some layers, some type of organisation is necessary. I would suggest a functionality where layers which belong to the same logic group can be added together and hidden under some sort of animation layer group node. Moreover, its currently not possible to make animation layers of referenced files be a child of another layer. This should be fixed, too." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "The Trax Editor is limiting because of the need to create character sets, and the need to switch modes between editing clips and editing keys. Animation layers are great because they work on anything, but are limited because they only affect values and can't affect timing. There's also no universal and reliable way to import and export animation. Animation layers should be editable in a more non-linear way, and their timing should driven by an animation curve that can be edited. Retimed keys should be interactively re-adjusted in the graph editor. Any sort of non-linear editing should still leave keyframes visible and accessible. Any animation curves should be exportable based on name, and importable with all the options of copying and pasting, either directly into existing animation keys, or as a new animation layer/clip."   "It might be nice to have clips be like groups of keyframes and then the graph editor/dope sheet/ and time slider would display the keys of the selected clip(s). If nothing was selected it would display just the default keydata. Then animation layers could just be essentially added tracks." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Windowing on Mac OS X is a total mess since Maya 2010. In certain conditions the Hide command will be completely ignored. Additionally floating palettes like undocked Tool Settings don't honor application z-ordering. If for example Safari is the current top app, any Maya palettes will remain in front of it."   "Attribute editor always stays in front, no matter which program you're currently using. Also, maya windows "jump" out of the dock sometimes when you switch applications."   "I cannot stand that pressing any key (even a modifier key) will cause whatever window the cursor is hovering over to pop to the front. It's very inconsistent across different windows, but try opening several windows slightly overlapping each other, then move your mouse around and push 'option'.   Some windows completely ignore it. For example, if you have Hypershade, Expression Editor and Graph Editor open in that order, Expression Editor will never pop to the front when you push a modifier, but the other windows will. No window should pop at all. (Maya 2013.5)   The window layering focus should not change until the mouse is clicked."   "If you hit render and leave the program, you're basically stuck with any floating windows hanging around on the top layer for eternity until the render is done" Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Although the archive option has been there for awhile it retains the absolute file structure a file has when copying the items into a zip file. A more practical and helpful option for handing off project directories would be something that: 01 - detects all paths pointing outside the root of the workspace. 02 - makes a copy of the files into the relative path starting in the same root. 03 - Relinks the nodes in order for the scene to be fully self contained. This allows for various modular workflows and detachable shot work without the need for extended scripting or tool building, as well as minimizing the support need when uploading projects to a cloud environment." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Separating geo from animation using alembic will allow a lighter or FX artist to more easily separate their workflow (dependency) on the geometry received from off a rig or other department. That way a lighting setup/ fur setup with different UV assignments, history, nodes connected etc, can be maintained as a separate process, while only needing to update vertex animation, versus trying to reconnect stuff to new geometry.. Cortex can do this.. Alembic should definitely do this!" Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Please improve the camera projections in maya, they are outdated and do not work well with transparency. The camera projects on the backside too, which causes us unsolvable problems. The transparency in VP2 of the camera projections perform really bad (even in depth peeling) as they are dependant of the center of the bounding box of the objects, which cause many problems too. Finally, things get too heavy when matte paintings are projected on many objects (projection shader assigned to multiple objects), way more intense for gpu than a regular shader. My hopes aren't very high on fixing maya things and anyway we are (the studio... lots of people...) migrating to other softwares for rendering. But if someday we come back this would be a welcome fix. : )" Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "If you have something selected, and you create a new object like a locator, give option to put it at same coords as the selected object." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "When restarting work after a crash its tedious to have to manually locate autosaves and work out whether they older or newer than the last manual save. Please automatically check for autosaves, and if the user chooses to load one, rename it so the next manual save will go back in the scenes folder with the original filename and with incremental saves incremented as if no interruption had happened. " Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Large image files can quickly bring Maya to it's knees by filling up main system Ram and GPU resources. But more often than not, we have no immediate need to see the full resolution of these image files inside Maya itself. Instead they are merely there to be fed to our final Render engine of choice. Be it Mental Ray, V-Ray, Arnold, etc.  In the meantime, a much lower resolution placeholder would do just as well. In Nuke this is handled by their read nodes having a separate file path entry for a low-res Proxy version of the image(s) you are loading in. Then there are global switches which enable you to tell Nuke to either use the full-resolution files for high quality results or the low-resolution versions for speed and interactivity. Best of both worlds at the flick of a switch." Show More