Maya Ideas - Page 4

trevor.adams · ‎04-30-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "Baking animation curves either with HIK panel or from the curve editor ought to disable viewport updating. When baking animation curves, the bake is dramatically faster if there is no model panel updating. What I have to do right now is switch to outliner or hypergraph, make that the only panel visible, and then bake. What I used to do, was tab to the output window and just cover up the modelpanel - but with windows Aero this no longer works. Showing None in the modelview also helps, but not nearly as much as not having one visible at all."

trevor.adams · ‎04-26-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "in XSI you could select which window to playback (or all windows) the animation when you scrubbed the timeline or graph editor timeline or press the play button I'd like to lock a specific window to only playback that one window so maya is faster. even if i tear off a window, I'd like to lock that specific window to animate only that one, or all windows. right now it's "which window is currently selected" but it doesn't even do that.. "

Anonymous · ‎02-01-2019

How about a slow down option in playback control?

UnaiMartinezBarredo · ‎12-19-2018

Animators in our studio get constantly annoyed due to lack of visual feedback on whether their Graph Editor is showing normalized curves or not, and whether it’s showing them stacked or not. It’s very frustrating to be tweaking the keyframes of a curve and see the entire curve pop when you least expect it. The Normalized curve display and Stacked curve display buttons in the Graph Editor toolbar should be toggles, instead of having a button to enable either feature and another one to disable it. Not only this is more elegant and compact, but it also provides visual feedback on how the Graph Editor is displaying the curves without cluttering it, and complies with the rest of the interface (eg. the Auto load or Time snap toggle buttons in that same toolbar). Another reason why this would be desirable is because it’s 2018, not 1998. Thanks in advance!

dpumpa1 · ‎07-27-2018

One of my favorite features in Cinema 4d was the ability to do basic math in attribute windows. i.e. 470 + 20 7 * 4 -= 22 You can do some of this stuff in the Graph editor value window. But the attributes in the channel box and attribute window don't. It just restores it to its original value like when you type in letters. It doesn't have to remember the equation like an excel sheet, just replaces it with the new value.

trevor.adams · ‎04-25-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "Make it easier to save/load information (skin weights, anim curves, etc): Ten years on we have the same save skin weights tool that make IFF files. The first thing every company has to do is write a weights saver and remapper. The next is an animation curve saver, and they rarely work with layers. There are other examples, the main point is that we would like to be able to save/load data, this was understood back a decade ago when the original animation and skin weight saving systems were written, it's time for an update. 🙂" http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya-Tech-Docs/CommandsPython/deformerWeights.html

trevor.adams · ‎04-25-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "Bring over the bounding box selection/editing from Motionbuilders Fcurve editor: The Fcurve editor in Motionbuilder has one advantage over Maya, Max and every other 3d app. When you select multiple keys on curves in Motionbuilders Fcurve editor, you are given you a bounding box around your key selection. This "bounding box" gives you the ability to quickly and or precisely manipulate keys. You can both enter numeric values into the boxes "corners" to adjust the curves with precision, or you can drag the box handles to make quick adjustments. This functionality is one of the key reasons I still persist on using Motionbuilder. Here is a link explaining what I am referring to: http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/motionbuilder2013/en-us/index.html?url=files/Function_curves_Editing_function_curves.htm,topicNumber=d30e77008"

Anonymous · ‎11-09-2019

I want a search bar for tools so that whenever we want a particular tool we can search for it in maya itself. Not everyone is familiar with the software, so sometimes we know what to use but not able to find that tool. some times with the new version of the software , some tools will be shifted from one location to another, it will further increase the frustration to search for the tool or some particular option.

shirkaen · ‎09-23-2019

Many beginners struggle when finding some feature, there are custom shelves but it would be faster to type, eg. cleanup or anything else, than find some feature and pin it. MS Word solved it nicely, I think you can learn from it.

Anonymous · ‎07-13-2019

Stop-action: https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-vortex-smoke-ring-collision Even finer detail: https://gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd-2018/5b9ad86eb8ac3105e5ac8e1e Next situation: Unfortunately, there is not yet a video which shows what needs to be shown. What needs to be shown is the result of the collision of 6 smoke rings on 3 axi, each at right angles to the other two axi. The first instant of collision would look similar to the six faces of a cube with rounded corners. In other words, there would be no "membrane" as shown in frame "b" of the second video, that is: the "stop-action" video. Instead, the collision would begin at the outer circumference of each vortex and work its way to their centers. In other words, the last instant of the collision would be the contact of all six centers at the same point. At least, that's what I suspect; but it needs to be tested in order to be sure. There are at least two ways to test. One way to test would be to build a tank which produced 6 colored smoke rings which all collided in the same volume at the same time. Up-down axis, left-right axis, back-front axis. The other way to test would be to use software. That is, programs such as Houdini, Real Flow, BiFrost, and Psunami. So maybe your company would be willing to make this simulation video to show what your software can do?

Boon_in_Oz · ‎04-04-2019

Can Maya not pop itself to the front while loading? Maya 2018 takes ~1 minute to start, and during that time I do other stuff. Three or four times towards the end of startup, I suddenly find that I'm typing in the Maya window. It also does it while loading a new scene. (3DS Max is far worse, FWIW.) It should pop up a splash screen, then everything else should be at the same level as that. If I click away from the splash screen, nothing else should come to the front until I click on it again. I know it's not only a Windows app, but still, this is from the Windows application guidelines: "Windows displayed by user-initiated actions should take input focus, but only if the window is rendered immediately (within 5 seconds). Once the window is rendered, it can take input focus once. If a window renders slowly (more than 5 seconds), users are likely to perform another task while they wait. Taking focus at this point would be an annoyance, especially if done more than once."

exsulator · ‎10-18-2018

The Bake Deformer Tool is handy if want to export complex rigs to applications that have limited deformer support. But in most cases I just want to bake to the rig I'm currently working on, it's cumbersome to prepare the target when ultimately I'm just going to continue working on the same mesh and skeleton. I want to hit "bake", and without needing a target, it should just bake the deformers on the selcted geometry, while removing the deformer nodes in the process. This should at least be a checkbox option, to skip the whole "target" chore.

sublist · ‎05-14-2018

It would be extreme useful for Game Assets if you could convert any vertexanimation incl. all deformer to a bone based System, like Hans Godard from Naughty Dog does here. https://vimeo.com/123883474

userX4542 · ‎05-11-2018

Allow for an option to make shelves dock vertically in the user interface.

Anonymous · ‎05-10-2018

Hi . autodesk should provide a less price maya with less feature then the full version maya .The new edition for animators and photo designer who require less feature and should be able to render their work . small starter individual animators and designers can't effort the expensive price of maya . When they earn enough money , they will able to buy full version . Thanks

userX4542 · ‎05-03-2018

Like in xsi, when you middle mouse click on a menu, it runs its previously used command. This is different to pressing G in maya.

trevor.adams · ‎04-27-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "You should be able to select more than one joint and mirror them with the "mirror joint" tool at the same time. I shouldn't have to select individual joints and click the "mirror joint" button over an over again. I've written a MEL tool that fixes this problem, but not everyone knows how to do that."

trevor.adams · ‎04-26-2018

(Copied from original User Voice forum) "When can we ever have a slice tool in maya, its 2018 and we need a slice tool something we can model and animate with, now mash is here we need that tool more than ever esp. for mograph purposes. pls lets have it in the next update!"

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Disable display update when baking animation curves

Animation playback only in one viewport panel

Slow down

Graph Editor: make Normalized and Stacked curve display buttons toggles

Basic equation functions in the channel box and attribute window

Save/load skin weights

MotionBuilder in Maya: Bounding box editing for curves

Search Bar For Tools

Feature search box like in MS Word

collision of smoke rings

Don't take window focus during startup or file load

Bake deformer tool shouldn't need a target mesh

Skinning Converter

make shelves verticle

New edition of autodesk maya with less price and less feature for animators

Middle mouse on menu to repeat action last used in that menu

Mirror multiple joints

Bring back the Cut Faces Tool

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