A feature that I would like to see is a way to make your own brush presets from the existing sculpt Tools. Because now i have to change settings every time I open maya or do something new. Would be great if I could save my brush into the shelf with all its settings, alpha and so on. So that we can ease build a library of custom brushes. Also update the sculpting tools to compete with other software such as zBrush.   On a final note, I would also like to have access to the sculpitng API so that i can make own scripts  in Python. Show More

I would love to disable Mayas insistance that 'unit conversion' nodes should be inserted everywhere. I often use 'Multiply Divide' nodes between two connections of a similar type and I end up with two unit conversion nodes per axis, which are just converting one way then converting back again pointlessly (and using resources presumably). I can set them all to '1' in which case they do nothing and the behavior is the same. They also aggravate node editor issues of muddled appearance and general annoying behavior.   I would suggest that unit conversion nodes aren't applicable to 'multiply divide' nodes, or most other nodes for that matter. Show More

On the latest iteration of Maya, when you hit "save" in the script editor it automatically saves over your existing file which is fine but I would like, at least, to have the option to select "save as..." so I don't need to copy the script over to another tab before saving to a new file name. Also it would be nice to have the ability to set the default behavior of the "save" icon to "save" or "save as" as I much rather use the second alternative.   Cheers Show More

It would be nice if MayaQWidgetBaseMixin class would support setting custom Qt window flags via setWindowFlags function. Right now the only way to achieve this is to use classic MQtUtil.mainWindow() and parent my custom widget (with those custom window flags) to Maya's main window. Show More

If you press CTRL-Return in the script Editor all the code in the current pane is automatically executed (and cleared). This appears to be a newer feature that was added in 2016 or 2017. This is becoming extremely frustrating and damaging when you type as fast (or as clumsily) as I do because I am either pressing CTRL too quickly or not releasing it quick enough while doing things like pasting with CTRL-V and then hitting return for a newline.   This never used to happen to me and I've been scripting in the editor since Maya 4.5 but now I'm constantly losing snippets of code and sometimes crashing Maya because I've accidentally hit CTRL-Return. I honestly don't see who would want this functionality so I'd say remove it entirely, but if you can't or won't, please considered putting a "Use CTRL-Return to execute" option on the Script Editor Command menu or somewhere. Thanks :nathaN Show More

When making a query to say, polyListComponentConversion, it would be nice to not have a result where there's a range specifier and just have a 1 to 1 result. Example: // Result Given Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[240] = 104 Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[251:252] = 49, 76 // Preferred Result Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[240] = 104 Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[251] = 49 Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[252] = 76 Example 2: // Result Given Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[250:252] = 104, 49, 76 // Preferred Result Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[250] = 104 Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[251] = 49 Face 206: Indices(49, 104, 76) | polySurface2.map[252] = 76 Add a query flag for the results/return list/etc.. to be expanded instead of grouped with ranges. Would make life a little easier without having to also parse through ranges on results. Show More

This would be quite the change, of course, but change Maya to no longer be name-dependent for its nodes.   It would really speed up user's workflow if we didn't have to be so concerned about manually typing in extensions to node names ("george_grp" and "george_curve").   Then for scripting, Autodesk could come up with a consistent, internal naming convention for object extensions.   So if I have a group and a curve both named "george," and say Maya's official extention for groups is "_grp" and "_crv" (or something like that), then the user just has to apply the appropriate extension types while scripting to avoid naming conflicts.   It appears Maya already has a way to internally distinguish between objects, since it assigns the appropriate icon to each object, and I've never seen that break, even if I attempt to rename everything "george."   Cheers, Nathan Show More

I think this feature is useful for students learning OpenGL programming. Usually the homework or course project asks students to use existing models like bunny or teapot to work with some OpenGL tasks like lighting or rendering. But sometimes the students are free to use whatever model s/he likes. It is tedious and error-prone to write hard-coded coordinates into C/C++ codes to describe the model. How nice it would be if I can create the model inside Maya and export the coordinates directly by clicking a menuitem! My idea pushes this convenience one step further, inspired by the interface Maya has already provided for Unity and Unreal. I hope there is a menuitem File | Send to Visual Studio | All or Selection. If I click it, Maya can create a Visual Studio 2015 C/C++ Project which contains OpenGL codes and automatically invoke Visual Studio to open it. When I run the project in VS, it can display exactly the scene or selected objects in Maya (based on whether All or Selection was chosen). Furthermore, Maya can provide options to better control the generation of OpenGL code, such as what OpenGL version to use, what VS version to use (VS2015 or VS2017), whether the glm library call should be included, whether to use GLFW 3.2.1 or the legacy GLUT ... etc. This feature will not only make OpenGL coding convenient, but also provide a good model to learn OpenGL programming for students, so I hope it could be added in a future version of Maya. Thank you. Show More