With every new project I find myself recreating the same materials over and over again (assigning textures etc..)  Materials for e.g. wood, concrete, glass, metal for use in trim sheets or tileable textures, takes a good chunk of time every time I need to set them up.  Ideally I would love if Maya included a correct pbr material library that users could enhance and add their own stuff.  I imagine opening  the hypershade and already have a wide range of materials I can just drag and drop on my models and quickly preview them in Arnold.  This could save some time for a lot of people. 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

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "The Attribute Editor allows for only one object at a time to be edited. The way to change one attribute for numerous objects is either with the Channel Box or an Attribute Spread Sheet. But neither of them holds all the attributes that you can find/modify in the Attribute Editor. Yes, there are ways to go around, including scripting, but the Attribute Editor is much simpler and efficient." Show More

WebP format is a modern and highly efficient format for storing images that supports both lossy and lossless compression. It also offers alpha channel transparency and GIF-like animation out of the box. But what's more important, it can be used by glTF exporters to prepare assets for 3D web frameworks (such as Verge3D etc.). Show More

Please improve the procedural modeling system in bifrost: make a TVC so that you can procedurally create, for example, a city, using less than a hundred nodes Show More

Maya needs a matrix-driven transform. Currently transforms can not accept matrices as input. The user is required to first decompose a matrix in to its srt( & shear) values do drive a transform. The first thing the transform does is recompose those values in to a matrix to use in its own calculations. We could skip that expensive step. A matrix input would skip that step, reduce the number of connections required between nodes, and leave srt attributes free for animation curves reducing the need for additional dag nodes in rigs. Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   Modelers want a way to automatically retopologize a model in Maya, with an option to use guides (curves) to dictate edge flow in certain areas, similar to Mudbox Auto-Retopo.   "Adding auto-retopology would save a trip to Mudbox. Auto-Retopology with booleans Union would be very powerful for sculpting." Show More

Since Autodesk has made a native ARM version of Maya for Apple Silicon on macOS, it would be very helpful if the same could be done for iPadOS. iPads use the same chips as Macs and are just as powerful, so a port would make sense. 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

  1. 2D-to-Rig Pose Translation Artist Action: Draw key poses, lines of action, or stick-figure gestures over an existing rigged character. AI Interpretation: Generates 3D poses on the rig, respecting joint constraints, proportions, and weight distribution. Offers pose variations for the same line of action, letting the animator select the most appealing. Benefit: Speeds up blocking and early pose exploration, keeping the focus on artistic intention, not technical rigging. 2. Timing Chart Interpretation Artist Action: Draw timing charts or spacing lines above or alongside key poses. AI Interpretation: Generates in-between poses that match the indicated timing and spacing. 3. Integrated Blue Pencil Workflow AI tools are fully embedded in the existing Blue Pencil interface. Hotkeys allow instant interpretation of doodles, timing charts, or gesture lines. Artists can toggle AI assistance on/off, maintaining full control over rig and animation.  Technical Considerations     AI Models: Lightweight, GPU-accelerated deep learning models trained on rigged animation data. Non-Destructive Workflow: All AI-generated poses and in-betweens are editable; the user retains final authority.arcs into accurate in-between frames while preserving character weight, arcs, and momentum. Benefits For Animators: Draw and refine poses directly in 2D → automatically mapped to rigged 3D characters. For Studios: Faster blocking → cleaner rough animation → higher throughput. Early-stage visualization that closely reflects final animation. For Autodesk: Establish Maya 2027 as the first major 3D DCC to intelligently bridge 2D sketching, timing charts, and rigged animation. Strengthens Maya’s leadership in animator-focused innovation. Conclusion Artist using AI-assisted rig pose translation and timing chart interpretation into Maya 2027, could directly translate their 2D vision into 3D animation, reducing friction between concept and execution.   Show More

Maya needs a non-destructive curve system. I need to be able to cut, resample, smooth, offset, etc. and go back to the top level to make edits in real time based on creative feedback. Furthermore when you make a cut the result is to create X amount of new shape nodes for each new curve element. This is very messy, and I think it's at the root of the problem with curves in Maya. Each entity seems to need it's own shape node. Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Legacy Python 2.7 is starting to cause us issues in our pipeline. PySide2 is the most recent headache but many other distributions are also an issue. Additionally I would also petition Autodesk to compile Maya Python using the same MSC as the standalone Python distribution. This also causes many a headache by preventing version dependent Python modules from being used in Maya without having to recompile them." Show More

Bring Animbot features or toolset to maya. Animators are Paying high amount of money for maya but still need to buy plugin and script for space switch and blending between frames. Even H that just updated their software can do all dis easily 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