(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "If I open Maya and then go to file > open, Maya prompts me to save the empty scene it created when it opened. It also auto-saves blank scenes if I leave it open for a while. " Show More

As you can see blender is gaining to much popularity that making maya user to switch to other software . I want  maya to gets  rendering , better  modeling and many others. I  prefer maya over blender  I want more update for autdesk to improve maya and beat down blender in all aspect of modeling ,vfx,rendering, animation. 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

Hey Autodesk,      Why not Having some public roadmaps? I think that would be a fantastic step towards your community. It will show that you guys care about your users. I think we all know that in terms of revenue, Maya doesn't bring much to the table, but we still hope it can be at least a little motivation for Autodesk to take steps like these.    Look what the guys from Epic do, and I don't think having something like this is asking too much: https://portal.productboard.com/epicgames/1-unreal-engine-public-roadmap/tabs/109-unreal-engine-5-5   This is so awesome and exciting the way how they do and I personally love how they show with a little teaser of what its coming with a voting system embedded to each feature.     So please hire someone to be dedicated on this frontend, that I think this will bring a lot of life again to the community.   Thanks   - Daniel 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

Intro story: I'm using a lot of MESHLAB lately, since it can deal with a really big number of polygons. I've tested even 200M polygons which I can load into blender and even render without issues. Anyway, MESHLAB export obj seems to be seriously broken, or in other words, some lower number polygons created inside MESHLAB work fine, but anything else not. My workaround to load PLY file format was to import it into blender and then export as USDc. It would be much easier if I could keep the ply binaries instead, and import them directly into maya. Same goes with the point clouds. I can't import point clouds into maya either. While I see there are some already written plugins for ply, would be nice to actually build on them and have a bonus tool to import PLY file format. Same goes for GLB etc. Some of those formats are really needed and it seems weird that I have to use Blender to do that. Maybe it's not widely needed format, but I think it would open up some more polygon operations. Alternative would be to include some of the ply libraries which in turn would allow to use meshlab for some heavy polygon operations within maya. Other alternative would be to read heavy polygon data and add more options to cleanup tool for maya, which is not improved much to get latest algorithms etc. Mudbox as alternative is impossible, because it can't handle any irregularities with polygons, which makes it pointless. (Please don't talk to me about Zbrush. I'm aware is out there and big studios surely all have it, it's just not an option for me anymore.) In conclusion: Please get the PLY file format, or make some heavy lifting for big dirty polygon scan data or improve mudbox or meshmix in order to do that. BTW 3ds Max already has a ply importer. Why not maya ? And I'm completely aware that there are great advantages having both packages, but at the moment for me that is not option either. Thank you for reading Show More

When we import an STL file, we really should have a gui popup asking which scale the file should be imported as.  Modo and Blender both have these and it's really strange how Autodesk is associated with CAD, but Maya doesn't have a scale gui to set the size of the incoming file. Show More

It would be nice to have some sort of folder structure for materials and textures inside the hypershade.  So if I've got several characters and an environment in the same scene (for example) I could more easily navigate to the materials associated with each asset in the scene.  So for example, I could have directories for all the materials associated with each individual character, another one for the environment materials, etc. Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "It's currently necessary to LOAD a reference in order to REMOVE it. When dealing with multiple heavy references, this can add up to a huge amount of totally wasted time. " Show More

Despite it being available on Maya 2018 for OS X, STEP file import functionality was removed from 2019, and it apparently is no longer available for 2020 either through the ATF plug-in. Currently, there is no direct way to import Fusion 360 files into Maya. Going through .fbx or .obj requires the cloud and is quite slow. There is no way I've found to control tessellation like with the ATF plug-in in 2018.   Furthermore, the workaround of importing into 2018, saving to .mb or .ma and opening in the newer version is as kludgy as it seems.  Please bring the ATF plug in back to  Maya 2020 Mac. Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "For easy and fast prototyping rendering object made with ZBrush into Maya." Show More

What about a ".max" file import directly into Maya WITHOUT the need of 3DS Max (for users who CAN'T own it)? We're in 2020 and the problem is still not solved… Show More

It would be great if there was a tool in Maya to import, load and display point cloud data in the viewport. I work with lidar data all the time and being able to view the data in Maya as a reference would be very helpful with modeling to scale.   Show More

Unfortunately, Autodesk is blind to the efforts of other software in user experience. What has Maya updated in the last decade? Well, I changed the set of icons and bought several plug-ins. However, many modeling nodes are still single threaded, and there is a lot of pressure when dealing with high model. Sculpture seems to have been updated a lot, but the promise of 2016 is still not realized. I don't know what the developers feel when they see it. Mash has no point data cache, and some operations have to be performed in nodeediter, So why not upgrade nodeEditer and why can't nodes be packaged? (if you can package, many problems will be solved, and the complex deformer node network is no longer complex), is the operation logic after Maya node flow or history stack? Whether Maya can have an efficient and convenient history editor has been a similar question for ten years. I know you've been working hard on Bifrost, and I know that all the functions of Maya can be reconstructed in Bifrost, but who cares about low-end users? I hope Maya can change. Show More

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, Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "3ds Max and Mudbox, have this feature.   It is very time consuming when you have a big project and you have to find a specific geometry or prototype for your level.   This would make it so much easier to browse through my collection assets to find something to reuse."   "Other platforms have this incredibly handy feature that allows the user to see a snapshot preview image (automatically created on save) of their project file (scene file in Maya) in the OS browser AND within the application file browser. This is incredibly helpful when browsing through dozens of versions of a file so that a desired "state" of development can be easily selected as opposed to having to open each and every file to see its contents. Let's add this to Maya as a super time saver! Thank you!" Show More