The most voted idea for the last few years. Autodesk, bring Python back, dont be greedy! Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Please add this it would be very helpful for UE4. It would make rigging and animation a lot easier in Unreal Engine."   "I can understand why Plugin support isn't open to any plugin as people could use Maya LT in production instead of Maya. However I feel we need the ability for third parties to supply plugins for Maya LT that can be passed by Autodesk as usable in LT. Things like autoriggers, 3d input devices, Allegorithmic Substances, etc." Show More

Most of the ideas in this forum are about bringing features back from Maya Full to Maya LT , features that were cut to justify the price difference.  About one year ago Autodesk announced Maya Indie, basically Maya full for the price of LT for individuals and companies making under 100k a year. This is currently a pilot program for select privileged countries unfortunately and from what support told me, there's no plan to extend this program for at least another year! For freelancers like me who love Maya but are struggling to get anywhere close to that income since we live in second rate countries, we are stuck between choosing to pay 2000E for the full version or ditching our beloved plugins and python scripts and working in LT.  Personally I'm a modeler so don't need and never use most features of Maya Complete like simulation or rendering so currently I feel like I'm paying almost 10x the price just to have Python and plugin support which is ridiculous! LT is not a viable option since it's crippled in weird ways like not having access to the Crease Sets editor since it's in Python. Also, I do freelance and my clients want Maya Complete scenes with special setup that doesn't translate well with FBX. Maya Complete scenes open fine in LT but not the other way around since Autodesk wants to discourage working with LT and then combining stuff in Complete later. Taking the plunge and making Maya Indie available worldwide would have quite a few benefits for both Autodesk and customers as follows: For Autodesk: 1. Would save development and support costs for Maya LT. 2. Save development costs for special "Autodesk approved" plugins specially compiled for LT (like Substance). 3. Bring new revenue from "emerging" markets that currently pirate Maya.  4. Make this whole forum section automatically solved! No more wasted time discussing what features to bring back from Maya Complete to Maya LT! 5. Show that Autodesk cares about emerging markets and is not discriminating against them by having preferential pricing as they do now with the Maya Indie pilot program! For customers/potential customers in the targeted income bracket: 1. Maya Complete features for the costs of Maya LT. 2. For developers: a wider audience, a single script that works in all Maya versions. 3. For current users of pirated copies, increased security from not having to download shady cracks from shady websites! Having a good reason to pay for that is otherwise a good piece of software and an industry standard! 4. Make this whole forum section automatically solved! No more wasted time discussing what features to bring back from Maya Complete to Maya LT! If you agree with me, make sure to post your comments below! Let's make this more popular than the Python request! Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "... enable GoZ support for Maya LT." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "It would be useful to export directly to Substance Painter or more integration since is a stage between Maya and Unity 5 or Unreal Game Engine allow for PBR Texture generation. And if possible imported back into Maya." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "I want to export some models (buildings, props, etc.) in obj format and bring them to Zbrush for detailing. To make polygons even and good for sculpting, I find it is pretty easy to hit the 65,000 limitation. Please re-consider the poly count limitation on OBJ export."   "I want to be able to bake in xnormal. Turtle is awful. The export limit makes this impossible and it should be removed completely." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "I think it would be really quite useful if not necessary to have PBR/PBS shader/rendering technology in Maya LT. Physically based rendering/shading is currently used in Unity 5 as well as in the Unreal Game Engine. Additionally Painting applications such as Substance Painter and 3DCoat allow for PBR Texture generation which I would love to be able to import back into Maya LT. "   "Basically after closing Stingray, it would by nice to have another PBS Material that could allow us export in an easiest way all the maps to Unity and Unreal 4."   "Small fixes to PBR in Maya LT: Point and spot lights to work with standard physically based shader; hypershade to show correct samples, mine just shows static kinda like your tv is on the way out; attribute editor to show values as it doesn't always seem to display anything (the current workaround i have found it to open the attribute editor in the hypershade menu)." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Please allow us to disable the auto layout "feature" in the Node Editor.  It's extremely disorienting when Maya updates the layout to the way it thinks the nodes should be after every connection is made.  As a side note, the pinning feature is nice, but it doesn't help much.  If you pin a bunch of nodes, then the next node that gets added is somewhere off in the distance and Maya zooms out to show every thing.  This too is very annoying." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Deform->Wire Tool is a neat tool for modeling." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "PSD File support like in Maya." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Add the delta mush deformers, tension deformer, and/or other deformers that are not currently in Maya LT: Now that there is a deformer baking tool that will bake the deformers down into the skin weights, this makes the use of these deformers very useful for a lot of folks making content for real-time use such indie games." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Can we get Maya ASCII saves again, when Maya crashes, and it does happen, scene files can get corrupt, have ran into this with Maya LT, If we do not have backups, or the corruption branches off into all your saved .MA files you are pretty much stuck with starting from scratch again." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "This is unbelievably helpful for weight painting in the rigging process. Especially when working with very low poly characters each vertex needs to be weighted with specific values and not being able to numerically work with them and see all the influences makes things quite frustrating." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "As you decided to disable plugin support, it is no longer possible to use a 3d input device. This literally increases workload by around 100% and is the reason I am going back to blender." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "Fingers added to the quick rig option would be helpful, or a clear concise step by step process to add fingers to the quick rig without errors." Show More

(Copied from original User Voice forum)   "As currently described in this post https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-lt-forum/geometrypaint-tool-problem/td-p/7296639, the "Align" option in the geometryPaintTool does not work for Maya LT. Please add this feature." Show More