Maya Ideas - Page 4

moonpotato · ‎02-07-2020

stop the node editor auto arranging itself when you add nodes/connections it's been talked about for years here with details, videos and rants https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/node-editor-nodes-keep-rearranging/m-p/8728228#M71171

Alexx31 · ‎02-19-2022

many other node based softwares have it, but Maya still not: Backdrop nodes to sort everything nicely, to move a bunch of nodes around and to comment. Please consider after many many years some basic UI improvements for the Hypershade, which is the main tool for look development. I have copied screenshots from the suggestions of the Node Editor - the same applies for the Hypershade. (And actually, it would only need one good Editor, that can do the tasks of both Hypershade and Node Editor - the difference would be then just different layouts and panels.) Backdrop nodes let you organize way better (Here a comparison between Maya and Houdini what it means for working with nodes) same for the Hypershade example from Nuke

Anonymous · ‎01-07-2020

It would be great if Autodesk could provide us with an AppImage, Flatpak or Snap package as those bundle all the dependencies within and are developed specifically to make it easier to distribute and support software across the wide variety of Linux Distros. I know that out of all Linux distros officially only RHEL and CentOS are supported. However while they may be popular in VFX industry and studios these distros are not very popular among general public and desktop users. Other distributions like Debian based Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS and similar or Manjaro and Fedora dominate and push Linux Desktop. Currently it is possible to install Maya on, say, Ubuntu, but it requires a lengthy script that will fix dependencies errors as well as some other things like environment variables. This script needs to be updated for each version of Maya and each version of host OS which makes it a tedious process. And of course it's not supported by Autodesk. A lot of users, myself included, would love to switch their workstations to Linux for it's performance and stability or other reasons, but can't currently do this because a lot of the professional software in this area is either not accessible on Linux or is hard to install and maintain. Simplifying Maya installation and supporting wider variety of Linux Distros would be a huge step in this direction. Linux is now gaining a lot in popularity and made huge leaps in Desktop area in the past years already making it a viable platform for a lot of desktop users and professionals.

1006138663 · ‎10-28-2021

At present, viewport 2.0 can achieve a good preview effect, but it is far from Blender's eevee. I don't think we need to catch up with eevee in one step. Can we upgrade each version a little instead of discarding it after a little upgrade. For example, as shown in the figure below, the current shadow of aiarealight in viewport 2.0 is only relatively bad, which greatly affects the quality of preview in the actual project. It takes courage to switch to blender or continue to use Maya. I hope Maya can refuel

trevor.adams · ‎04-25-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "Add a powerful renamer tool with useful options like prefix, suffix, etc. This is such an important tool for scene organization. Everybody uses these, but Maya should come with a powerful one right out of the box."

klawchi · ‎11-24-2023

Color Settings is a mess in Maya and it need a total revamp. It's need to have: - Ability to search. - Active and Inactive needs to be at the same window with an easy way of choosing both color at the same window. - Active Index Palette need to be replaced by Color Wheel on every settings on the list. - Ability to have a preset list so you can load and save different color palettes. - At the moment there is no consistency when and where to have a color picker, you need to guess which setting will have a color picker! - Sliders needs to go away! it's not efficient and too old!

laurence.cymet · ‎02-08-2019

Maya can take a little while to start up, especially when you have multiple plug-ins enabled. During this period Maya steal UI focus several times (particularly on windows) which is frustrating as it prevents you from doing something else while waiting for Maya to start up. It would be great if Maya didn't steal focus at all, so I can work on some other app during startup.

1006138663 · ‎03-27-2024

The new feature of Maya 2025 that I saw today is the Deformer widget. Thank you to the developer team, but I believe it can become even better. Firstly, there should be icons for each deformer, making it clear at a glance. Secondly, it should be a hierarchical operation similar to mash, rather than manipulating the order of deformers through up and down buttons. I have developed my own tool here, and I believe it can provide better and more intuitive operations.

reniferziolo · ‎05-19-2020

Hello Autodesk team, I would like to greatly encourage you to make Maya indie worldwide. For a fair price (I noticed it's 560 pounds in UK compared to 360 USD in the US) This would make Maya accessible to casual users and freelancers as well as smaller studios. With blender animation update coming and it's general popularity the future is not looking so good. I would love to keep using your software and I hope you can make it possible for freelancers worldwide. Who is with me? 🙂

alex · ‎10-24-2025

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.).

fabrizio.arzani · ‎05-03-2018

- we need a more advanced fracturing system - improve fluids making them more stable and easier to use or give us the possibility to use density, temperature, etc in aero... maya system is quite old and unstable compared to sustems like houdini. - improve mash bullet system... I’ve tested it with a fractured object (700 shards) and it massively unstable and hard to control. - good booleans guys! Something like hard mesh 2.0 or zbrush retopo system / dynamesh

hintzjt7 · ‎08-25-2018

Pixar's sculpting brushes should be implanted in Maya. https://graphics.pixar.com/library/Kelvinlets/ https://graphics.pixar.com/library/DynaKelvinlets/

trevor.adams · ‎04-25-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "...have a single node editor instead of having a hypergraph, hypershade and a node editor and oh yeah.. a node connections editor" "Consolidating everything into the Node Editor is the way to go. I don't know anyone who still uses the Hypergraph. The only thing I use the Hypershade for is to deal with the upper tab groups, organizing, assigning, and generally dealing with shaders, textures, shading groups, etc. It would be amazing if that was integrated into into the Node Editor and I think there are definitely some improvements that could be made to how shaders, textures, etc. are organized and renamed and so on. Making it easier to see full shader names, easier to rename shaders, better list view that lets you list shaders with lots of different info columns with the ability to sort using different columns." "I always thought it would be best to show dag hierarchies using special connection lines in the hypershade. So, why not implement that in the node editor? It would be also very nice if all different node types could be shown an hidden like in the viewport. I would also like the possibility to rotate selections of nodes in the hypershade so I could arrange them properly. Implement that in the node editor!"

trevor.adams · ‎04-24-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "I would like to see a Spline Toolkit and splines that worked like the splines in 3ds Max [faster/easier than Maya's curve tools.]. I often switch to 3ds Max to work with splines which eventually get converted to polygon objects and brought back into Maya. I love how in 3ds Max I can manipulate a spline the same way I can in AutoCad or even Illustrator. I can fillet a point, weld points together, etc." "I want a better fillet on curves. Basically just the same feature as in MAX where you can select all the vertices on a curve and fillet them in one step. In Maya you now have to select all the vertices, separate them into several curves, then fillet two curves at the time, then the next two, then the next etc, then attach the curves back together"

NuiiCool_Cedi · ‎10-19-2025

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.

ruanXKC64 · ‎01-27-2023

If Maya can only recognize any file format of image sequence or video clip that you import into the image plane. I find it very difficult to get the right compression so that a video clip can work or have the right numbering format for an image sequence. It should be able to handle mp4, Prores, h264 etc.

Anonymous · ‎03-04-2019

When selecting an edge loop and pressing the key delete. It deletes the edges but leaves the vertices. Using Ctrl+Delete is deleting the edges and the vertices. Ctrl+Delete should be the default behavior and mapped to the Delete Key. I can't think of any case where I need the vertices to be preserved, and if I can find one, it's certainly the exception and not the rule. Right now if you work in your geo and forget to properly delete edges (and vertices), you get a messy geometry and cleaning it up is painful.

trevor.adams · ‎04-26-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "A way of selecting polys or any other object or particle procedurally. for example like Max volume select or Houdini's select by expression or by volume or like MASH falloff but for polys and particles"

andre.ivankio · ‎01-25-2023

Neither "Transfer Maps" nor turtle's "Texture baking" seem to have options for current pipelines (with more info channels than baseColor and normal). Arnold is even more limited for that. The need to bake final light outside of game engines has become less common, while we always need maps like roughness and metallic. Channel mixing should be handled too. Often each project need a peculiar selection of info channels packed together, like a RGBA texture with metallic, emissiveMultiplier, roughness, teamKeyColor. Maybe a rerouter node/interface. Better if the tool could handle more shaders as input, specially Standard Surface. Even better if the tool could be paired with (or handle itself) atlas generation.

stigla · ‎02-21-2025

Very simple. Stop changing maya versions. Since most of the development is going into bifrost, Arnold and USD are upgraded when needed, stop changing the maya versions, since the QT6 is in place and development is slowed down so much. Pymel is already lagging a lot as well, maybe stopped, which is another loss of resources if true. Work on better, easier, user friendly approach to bifrost tools, so they can be used real time, just like old FX tools in maya, for people who don't have time to develop tools inside bifrost. We need PFX inside bifrost as well, working with strands, it's greace pencil tools like in blender just not as obvious and user friendly, even more powerful still. Make it easier for outside developers to catch up and refresh the tools maya already have, just work on the workflow and integrating tools. Maya renderer is not working anymore for a lot of things, arnold still didn't replaced what could be done with it.

Community

make the node editor useable

BACKDROP nodes for the HYPERSHADE (less clutter, clearer graph and ability to comment)

AppImage, Flatpak or Snap for Linux

viewport 2.0 needs some minor upgrades

Better Renamer Tool

Color Settings window a total revamp

Don't steal focus during Maya startup

New Attribute Editor Deformer widget

Maya Indie worldwide

Please support WebP format for textures

Improve dynamics and modeling workflow

Pixar's sculpting tools for Maya

Consolidate node editors

Spline Toolkit

Maya for iPadOS port

Importing an image plane or video for the background too difficult

Delete Edge should delete vertices by default

Procedural Selection Tool

Update Transfer Maps or Bake Textures tool

Stop changing maya versions.

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