Maya Ideas - Page 8

userX4542 · ‎06-18-2018

A feature in the graph editor to remove jitter/shake/noise from a curve. This would be distinctly different to 'simplify curve' or 'resample curve' as it would keep the same keys, but smooth them out so there's less noise, and the curve becomes smoother.

Anonymous · ‎05-03-2019

Hi all, I'd love to be able to create a gradient of vertex colors by selecting a vertex, hitting B for soft selection and Flooding that whole selection inside the vertex color menu. Not just the selected vertices. It's great for precision painting of fades in the vertex colouring menu which can be used not only for vertex colouring foliage but also for skin weighting. It's something I've become really used to in Max and used it heavily to create this piece: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/peaches-e6503f88d02248a19946ac6a67dc550e

johnkeates2865 · ‎04-30-2019

Quite often, when pasting in the script, node or graph editor, for whatever reason, Maya will paste the whole scene into itself, or whatever nodes are in the clip board (maybe the mouse curser had drifted out of the window I was using). I guess it might be hard to prevent this from happening, but can it at least be undooable? Animators are constantly accidentally pasting objects into the scene when they wanted to paste animation (it is easily done).

userX4542 · ‎05-11-2018

New and improved muscle system for maya with FEM solvers that can be easily implemented in a procudral and editable way. Ziva dynamics are doing some great stuff.

trevor.adams · ‎04-26-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "in XSI there was the ability to draw points on a curve by just clicking while holding down "i" not like the way it is now, where you insert a new key in maya, but you could actually just draw points randomly, I used it to add variance in my animation curves, like noise to make it less mechanical. it was a fast way to add things. I want it back"

trevor.adams · ‎04-25-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "Make Human Ik more easy and quick for animators by adding simple and easy options for copy paste and mirroring posture and animation."

trevor.adams · ‎04-25-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "The ability to create a breakdown key between two existing keys, and have the new breakdown key favour either one of the key by a certain percentage from within the timeline. Something like tween machine. If you could have this key be assigned a different color automatically as well so that you can color code your keys I.e keys are red, breakdowns blue etc." "In maya animation workspace there should be tools like "aTools", that is, at least a tween machine. I think most animators use external tools like tween machine(?) It's such a fundamental tool that I think it could be integrated in maya. Other useful tool is to invert a animation curve or the selected keyframes, being the pivot the frame just before the selection."

m.w.chan · ‎02-07-2024

Exactly how 2D shape tween works in Adobe Animate but for 3D models. Could be useful to show a model process for example, a cube being transformed into a skyscraper by animating the models inbetween the modelling process, kind of like Zbrush saving the modelling process. Could also be used as automatic/AI blendshapes.

jaktt · ‎08-01-2022

HumanIK can customize multiple arms, add multiple legs, customize equipment, add bones freely, mirror POSE, and mirror an animation. These functions can be implemented in 3DSMAX's CAT skeleton system. I hope HumanIK It can also do the same, which can speed up the speed of the game, because MAYA is not only used by large companies, but also many small companies and individual users, we need a more simple and easy-to-use skeleton system, thank you!

Anonymous · ‎02-23-2019

An option for mirroring value, when we making an animation like a walk cycle

Anonymous · ‎02-14-2019

Why doesn't the simplex noise node have an animation option?

aleksandr.zagoruiko · ‎07-22-2022

Hi! What do you think about including Skeleposer in next Maya versions to make this tool to be a standard Maya thing? It works mostly like Shape Editor but for transforms and joints and actually there are a lot of rigs can be made in Skeleposer without any additional nodes. It's especially good for facial rigging. It's no problem to add or remove some things to make this tool to be more appropriate as a Maya standard tool. Github: https://github.com/azagoruyko/skeleposer

ben.singletonY43R5 · ‎01-24-2024

Currently you cannot free-rotate when rotating in Gimbal mode in Maya 2024. Our animation team, which migrated from 3ds-Max, has demonstrated to me that this has been a feature in 3ds-Max for years now. Shouldn't be a destructive change when you can toggle free-rotate from the rotate tool's settings window.

Anonymous · ‎02-04-2020

here are some feature suggestions/requests that will greatly benefit in a game development setting. Separate selection set for individual animation export clips Often times when we animate cinematic scenes or character interactions. We need to have multiple rigs in the scene. It would help a lot if we can associate each animation export with its corresponding character export set. It would make exporting all clips at once possible, also avoid character confusion when reexporting the same file later on. Batch export support in scripts When character rig changes mid-production. Animations often need to be batch re-exported. Having some form of script support for batch export would really simplify this process. Able to rearrange animation clips For scenes with multiple animation exports. The ability to re-order the animation clips would help with organizing sequence/character/action a lot.

Big_Rig · ‎03-13-2021

A feature I have always been interested in but haven't seen yet was being able to shift-select two points and have the skin weight brush paint the line from point a to point b, like in most 2D rasterized application. I realize skin weights requires an exactness to aid in creating organic movements and for the novice this could be an overwhelming thought, but for someone who needs to fly through simple repetitive tasks during skinning, on objects or non-organic objects and their movement, or even yes, on an organic object. If it was something simple, it would be nice to have this option maybe in the stroke area of the panel. Click it and shift-select while you paint away. Thank you for entertaining my suggestion.

kkhosTQ2PZ · ‎06-08-2022

HIK hasn't been updated since 2013. A major issue missing is having the capability for the Custom Rig to have the same functionality as the Control Rig has -- Fk+Ik limbs. The xml should have ability to map the forearm/legs to Fk rotation, elbow/knees to Ik pole vector translation, and wrist/foot to Ik-Fk translation and rotation similar to the Controls. I've tried this as a test and the markers are missing ID's to tie to. I don't know why the UI configuration is missing ID's or hasn't been updated? Other than deleting the custom rig and remapping the controls to one or the other Ik or Fk (not both combined), there is no easy way to do this. The ID's order should be exposed. Unreal5s retarget has been modified, there needs to be an update to the HIK tool. Thanks!

mcw0 · ‎12-24-2023

There are times when you want a specific animation channel to be of a specific tangent type, i.e. "step". Yes, this happens automatically if for example the attribute type is a boolean. But if the attribute type is a float by default, i.e. rotateX, each time you set keyframes, it is at whatever your default tangent preference is set at. It would be nice to be able to set a tangent type for specific attributes to override the preference setting. My current workaround is to create boolean attributes that drive the float channels that I want to behave as booleans. Quite messy.

VOSAXIN · ‎12-21-2023

I would like to request from maya team to bring some new features like anime style and crease pencil update like blender.

zewt · ‎10-31-2018

Freeze Transforms prints an error if you try to freeze joints that are connected to skinClusters ("Freeze Transform or Reset Transform was not applied because node is a joint and has skin attached"). That's fine for keeping novices from making ugly mistakes and exploding their meshes, but it's annoying when you know what you're doing and you really do want to freeze transforms on bound joints. I hit this occasionally when I want to bake scaling from a skeleton. All I really need to do is freeze while in bind pose, then reset the skinCluster's bindPreMatrix attributes to the new values. But freeze transforms won't stop trying to protect me, and I end up having to jump hoops to work around it. There doesn't seem to be any override in makeIdentity either. A "Check for bound skins" checkbox to turn off this check would be helpful, to allow freeze transforms to freeze bound joints even if it's going to break a bound skin.

Anonymous · ‎09-12-2018

basic grow and shrink of a cv selection on a curve like other geo using the > < hotkeys. i.e. for growing import maya.cmds as cmds def grow_selection (): """ grow selection of cv's on a curve ==================================================================================================================== :return: ==================================================================================================================== """ def get_object_verts(selection_vertex=''): extract_object = selection_vertex.split('.')[0] return cmds.ls(extract_object + '.cv[*]', flatten=True) sel = cmds.ls(selection=True, flatten=True) total_selection = [] for i in sel: verts = get_object_verts(selection_vertex = i) if not i in verts[0]: cmds.select(i) add_selection_up = cmds.pickWalk(i, direction='up') total_selection.extend (add_selection_up) if not i in verts[-1]: cmds.select(i) add_selection_down = cmds.pickWalk(i, direction='down') total_selection.extend (add_selection_down) cmds.select(sel, total_selection)

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remove jitter from curves

Soft Select Vertex Colour Flood

pasting should be undooable

Muscle FEM

Easily draw points on a curve in the Graph Editor

Human IK copy/paste and Mirror posture, animation

Tween Machine

3D shape tween

New in HumanIK

Mirror animation

Animation option for Simplex Noise

Skeleposer, Shape Editor for joints/transforms

Free-rotate support when rotating in Gimbal mode (See 3ds-Max for implementation)

Game exporter animation tab feature request

Skin weights painting option

HumanIK Custom Rig limits

Tangent flags for attributes

Anime style

Allow overriding "freeze transform not applied because it has a skin attached"

grow/shrink cv selection on a curve

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