Raise the Creative Bar with Next Gen Tools in Maya

[@tlilmiztli]

Guys, I really love Maya but what baffles me is fact that for so many years viewport is not fully compatible with Arnold. So when I use simple mix node in viewport all I see is dark blob. You want to make life of artists easier? Please fix that finally. How I suppose to work faster if I need to create two shaders - one for rendering one for viewport - for no reason? Also props for working with 3ds max team - please borrow some modeling improvements from them for feature releases :) Maya is really fantastic software - keep at it.

[@mayyassakaji]

we need stable maya more than we need new features

[@reaktorleak89]

Absolutely the biggest reason we quit using Maya for anything but Revit and Rhino cleanup. Crashing while saving should never be a fear.

[@FUNKYKHAN]

Still no support for pointclouds. Been asking about pointcloud support from last 5 years on the maya beta program. Still waiting ….

[@Aguacate3D]

No way this pink shape 2:54 is done by accident

[@philmehrart]

Like its surrounded by a cloudy gloryhole

[@vindeep1421]

[@quakebox]

Rigging and Animation process in Maya is better than Blender, the interface is faster but not perfect, the documentation is more through, there are some stuff I wish they add, 1-Full support for GPU render in Arnold some proceadurals don't work in Arnold GPU. 2-Faster interface 3- More polished interface 4-Bevel modifier. 5-Joining Mudbox to Maya to make it seamless.

[@leonardoacosta1953]

Mudbox never gonna make it and they shouldn't waste time making features in software that competes with ZBrush.

[@xanzuls]

only matter of time bro

[@alfsim7799]

Never been able to achieve out of the box simulations like they always show in their demo reels.

[@reaktorleak89]

The issue with Arnold 7.x is that Procedurals that share materials crashes GPU mode. It's been the biggest hurdle for my team, we've had to batch rename materials and isolate every object that might turn into a procedural for render time so that it can be given unique shader names. We didn't have this issue in Arnold 6.x, and hopefully it's fixed for 8.x whenever that comes out.

[@user-ym7lq5ke8m]

I feel young every time，when i open "Hypergraph Hierarchy" window......pls don't delete it！

[@ChaosOver]

What should people do with LookDevX if Subdivision wont work with USD stages?

[@Dreamjourneyvfx]

We need more update nCloth & We want better new features in Maya.

[@Dohpamine_Design]

you know how in CLO 3d or Marvelous designer, you can click on a part of cloth geometry and drag it to where you need , and then it simulates live?? ? yep we need that in maya , i'm new to maya but i'm not sure it has that feature.

[@nicolasmejiavfx]

AUTODESK PLEASE WAKE UP OR MAYA WILL END LIKE SOFT IMAGE ! WE DESERVE BETTER, WE NEED BETTER! - REAL-TIME RENDERING - BETTER PERFOMANCE - GPU INTEGRATION IN SIMULATIONS FOR BIFROST - ERASE THOSE OLDS TOOLS NO ONE USES - CAMERA TRACKING SOLVER we are not asking for much just what we need!

[@nonyabuiz2023]

Why bother. Customers locked into a never ending subscription

[@almostdead9567]

does anyone know a really awesome tool that will make maya great ? heres a suggestion , an asset library like blender or C4D , a library that supports different render formats and material formats , can even save scenes as a preset . what do u guys think ?? i am not taking abt the trashy content browser

[@ladyville3]

I use to like owning my items.

[@daabomb114]

agreed. Those were the days

[@quakebox]

I own Maya 2013 and I can't activate it easly, plus Mental Ray is really outdated and slow compared to Arnold. I can use it for modeling and animation, render non PBR scenes, but it's better to use Blender now or upgrade to the latest Maya that's from my experience.

[@Todd_Manus]

Everyone is being so nice here... Autodesk, you are, how do I say this? IN BIG TROUBLE... on a sinking ship, doomed to close up shop in a few more years. Do I need to go on?

[@tlilmiztli]

I hope you are being sarcastic mate :D Even if they completely ditched Maya and Max - Autodesk main income is not coming from entertainment :D

[@Todd_Manus]

@@tlilmiztli Yes I am being sarcastic... they have 20% reveneue growth year over year... hahah 5.0 billion just last year. You knob.

[@armandocamero]

fun fact: the image in the first few seconds is a 6 year old picture from Jesus Fernandez (xgen grooming tutorials in KZbin)

[@xanzuls]

Damn, that's all for a new version of Maya? Nothing against the talented hardworking developers, but autodesk as a company, this is lazy af.

[@nonyabuiz2023]

When you don’t have to earn business. But enslave it’s users, that’s what happens

[@ssmallthing]

don't make me dispointment, want something hard and new, not just toys!

[@jstubbles]

This ain't it. As someone who's used Max/Maya for about 20yrs now, I just don't understand the utter lack of inspiration and basic features from other DCC tools (even between Autodesk's own apps. Looking at you, renderable splines). The sheer cost of Autodesk apps should result in better products, yet these apps are being left in the dust by other, cheaper, or even FREE alternatives. Disappointed.

[@jso19801980]

at least give us the full version of arnold included

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

Blender user be like : Really?

[@yannglica1023]

Seams nice. Can you fix the Hypershade ON/OFF swatches that doesn't work anymore in 2023 ? Cause it's really anoying to always load the swtaches while it's off. And please stop display Hypershade Window like Material Viewer while you asked Maya not to. Maya always load it and then close it, every time. It's time consuming. Thks

[@aherbez]

still no built-in GLTF support though

[@InnerAnimate]

Mudbox need to integrated with maya and boom you have ultimate 3d software.

[@RoN43wwq]

autodesk has lost most of its users in 10 years by doing nothing with its software

[@dubtube6691]

❤

[@psychoticgiraffe]

on one hand though, its nice having projects work consistently between versions

[@maxrose8845]

Man. Retopo? Layer skinning? Booleans? It’s like the people at auto desk have never seen another 3d DCC before. They make tools that no one needs.

[@Dstinct]

Major studios have been asking for this for ages. They cater to them as they buy most of the licenses. These are tools that small time users may not need, but these have all been high on the request list for ages.

[@xanzuls]

@@Dstinct Major studios have already developed plugins for these, they aren't gonna wait for decades for basic features. and major studios are using 10 year old version of maya anyways, they ain't upgrading.

[@RohitSharma-oh8qm]

Maya is only software that i don't feel bad pirating . It's not worth it anymore.

[@remie07]

Why? Can you tell me the reason? I want to switch to maya

[@Mushubeans]

Do NOT switch to Maya. My license expires at the end of this month and I am not renewing it. Maya is so ancient, clunky, and slow that I'm willing to learn Blender from the ground up. Maya is at least 7-10 years behind Blender and Houdini. I used to hate the idea of using Blender because using Maya felt "elite", but it's become very clear to me now that it's not worth a single penny of my money, and even if it was free I don't know if I'd still use it.

[@tlilmiztli]

@@remie07 Dude, just give it a try. I switched to Maya after 12+ years of Blender and never looked back. Every Maya release people say "theres nothing new! I am switching to Blender!" and every Blender release people say "WOW! AMAZING! So many new features! It will soon take over!". And none of these things is actually happening :D Blender for many, many years has massive updates and still isnt actually good. It has sculpting - nowhere near ZBrush. It has video editor - nowhere near Davinci Resolve. It has fantastic grease pencil that you will probably never use unless you are 2D animator - and in this case why the hell use 3D software... It has geometry nodes - nowhere near what Houdini can do. And it has BILLION plugins because ever bloody aspect of it needs fixing with plugin. Maya does not pretend to be everything. It is very good at what it does. Here and now. Not in some imaginary future like in case of Blender.

[@xanzuls]

@@tlilmiztli you really can't stop crying on the internet that how much of a better decision you've made by switching to a inferior software, i see you everywhere, Ig you actually don't do much work in maya lmao because why it's not that good?

[@allInteractivee]

just trying to relax at sofa, and there appears camera start interviewing

[@kurikuri0608]

Time to Short Autodesk stocks till its a penny stock. Im sure wall streetbets will have a crack.

[@TEREX12]

чуваки малость опоздали лет на 5 так, это все уже давно есть в других софтах

[@AyushBakshi]

Feels like good developers already left Autodesk.. not a bad thing though.. New tools should take the place of dead ones. Studios (no matter how dependent) will eventually choose a competitive tool over an ancient one refusing to fix its broken pieces.

[@richardsharp8545]

You seem to forget the advance in tech! your renders and other topics would still be lagging if the advancement in Graphic card, Ram etc stagnated. Yes you add a lot of feautures but without the advancment of laptops now able to perform on par with most pc`s and some even better. Also there are a lot of tools you remove when adding new ones which means upgrading software to often. I can see why everyone keeps going on about Blender.

[@Sae-ez3dx]

Are you ppl ditching 3Ds Max? Where is the proper old relaxing tool for UV editing in the latest builds of 3dsmax?

[@tlilmiztli]

Smart move asking under video about Maya.

[@CaptainoBob]

Maybe once these monkeys retire, autodesk will start making great things

[@daabomb114]

What a joke....Autodesk you can do better. In the early days, you had good updates. These are minor and feel like ho-hum updates. Are you guys running out of ideas? Maybe find a way to export rig controls that would be a cool update.

[@proplayer682]

Here we go again some dude in sofa talking about how great maya is, then maya just crashed !

[@iDidntAskToBeBorn765]

good improvement but those updates should make it in month not year , arnold is slow as hell , viewport is way too old and limited , no update in (ncloth , bullet physics ,sculpting tools) since stone age ,add realtime render , improve skinning weight , retopologize is painfull in quad draw ... keep sleeping autodesk and Blender will dominate the industry soon

[@Dreamjourneyvfx]

Right

[@frame653]

true as fuckh

[@oliveiraluis3540]

All these great improvements, great software.... Games and movies are shittier then ever. Well, we have the software at least, who knows if tides are changing.

[@Sussland]

I regret spending 2 years studying dying software. I wouldn't recommend this program to anyone; it's a dinosaur crap, the viewport is incompatible with Arnold Render, constant crashes, low-level usability, and a bunch of pitfalls. In the modern world, there are already plenty of free services and programs that are 10 years ahead of Maya. Big studios have adapted Maya for themselves, but for regular users, it's impossible to work in it, especially without plugins! And finally, fix the damn Hypershade. Stop procrastinating, rewrite the old dirty code, and make a simpler interface, especially for simulations; otherwise, the program will die in the next 5 years. It's great when plugins around the program are developed, but everyone needs optimization of the program itself.

[@animhaxx]

Houdini does this frequently. Why are you people so behind?

[@cescsoo]

i choose houdini😅

[@camiloff]

Only useless updates as usual. Hopefully I’ll never come back to maya again. Autodesk should spend less time making fancy videos and make the tools that already there work. Everything is so bug, xgen is so unstable like everything in Maya.

[@shivamsingh7638]

We expected better 💔

[@mrbrookah4117]

So, when are you going to support PBR materials to Maya?

[@rigMan123]

It does and has done for years

[@quakebox]

Maya uses Arnold, and Arnold has PBR.

[@juliusnadar7802]

Maya has only half the features of blender. Blender has a huge advantage with compositing section. Soon blender will take over the industry

[@tlilmiztli]

HAHAHAHAHA I am sure this will happen mate! I used Blender for over 12 years and it was always "soon taking over industry!". I dont know how long you are planning to live but I advice healthy life style and exercise if you want to live long enough to see Blender taking over anything. Which will probably not happen anyways but good luck waiting!

[@xanzuls]

@@tlilmiztli you have used blender for 12 years and still no nothing?

[@evanyao4572]

If you ever feel useless, remember that there are people whose job it is to update maya

[@Mranshumansinghr]

Autodesk will become the past in some time. I have used 3dsMax for 20 years but Blender is the future.

[@quakebox]

Not true Autodesk has a competitive advanatage, Fusion 360, Autocad are important CAD tools very popular in the engineering world, Maya is for Media and Entertainement considered standard by big studios for it's expandability, for small guys it's expensive and there are better alternatives like blender.

[@nonyabuiz2023]

I wish autodesk would sell all of their entertainment tools to other companies. Too much about esg and sustainability and not enough time development. Seems using an autodesk product these days feels like you’re on a sinking ship as everything else surpasses it. Subscription greed will be its downfall

[@ztoogemcducc6360]

Loved Maya but it's quickly falling behind Blender. I find myself using Maya less and less and blender more and more. Good riddance honestly, the price Autodesk charges for an unstable and infrequently undated software is laughable.

[@tlilmiztli]

The only thing laughable is that you think Maya falls behind that plugin platform called Blender :D

[@ztoogemcducc6360]

@@tlilmiztli is Maya 2024 fundamentally different from Maya 2018? Is blender today different from Blender in 2018? Now extrapolate that a few years in the future and you'll see Maya is getting it's ass kicked.

[@psychoticgiraffe]

Maya is actually great for animation but I’ve always found it’s interface 1999 and it is confusing for everything else, no innovation, I can make godly works with blender at a whim, even can use Vray there, outside of the stability of 3ds max autodesk has lost their touch, blender is far more capable, and if I’m going to wake 12 hours for a render I’m not gonna pay thousands.

[@tlilmiztli]

yeah, Blender with its CONSTANT tweaking UI so every release you need to look for well known feature, because they decided to move it somewhere. One of devs thought it might be better. Then in the next release bringing it back because turns out it wasnt better after all. And then in the next one moving it somewhere else once more because maybe there will be better :D And so on. Yes, fantastic experience. And so modern! So modern in fact that you cant just make a button without writing bloody plugin. Oh, so good! Laughable. I feel like people who write nice things about Blender didnt actually used that always unfinished platform for plugins...

[@psychoticgiraffe]

@@tlilmiztli blender has made minimal major changes from 3.0 to 3.6 in the UI, until 2.76, blender was pretty much consistent, with this said, I don't like the old versions of blender very much because they prioritize features that are not useful to me and make hotkeys difficult, much like early autodesk software, where you'd see a VHS tape of some guy saying he spent 4 months modelling a human because there is literally no hotkeys for 50% of the stuff that there now is in modern 3ds and blender. I used to be an autodesk purist and also used the program inventor which I found pretty great, but blender is leaps and bounds ahead now of anything autodesk has outside of poly count handling.

[@vadymkharchenko66]

It’s such a disappointment to see another maya version release in which the only noticeable update is a number change in title. A mere money making from the air. It’s pathetic! Are you aware of what’s going on in other software at all? Blender from 3.0 to 3.5 has more new features presented then Maya for the period from 2017 till 2024. Next gen tools? Where are they? Where’s sculpting updates? Where’s modelling updates? Where’s shading updates? Where’s XGen updates? There’re so many great third party plugins and scripts that enhance modeling, grooming, shading experience. But why don’t we have those updated by autodesk? Why are we still have many regular useful tools in Bonus Tools? What’s bonus in it? Why it’s still not implemented in standard interface? Maya is such a great 3D software but in the hands of such pathetic scammers!!! AUTODESK!! SELL MAYA TO THE COMPANY WHICH WILL TRULY WORK ON ITS IMPROVEMENTS!!!!

[@gokhanturker7583]

Autodesk is just like tech-artist who makes some plugins to do job easier. There is no lifechanger feature in years. Blender is far more ahead in terms of software development.

[@nischalshrestha8494]

Meanwhile people making plugins to drag and drop obj files in the viewport for blender

[@elconquistador3340]

lol blender lifechanger feature ?😆 what are smoking exactly everytime you dig a bit on a new feature it's always half baked with shitty performance

[@xanzuls]

@@elconquistador3340 as if the maya features aren't half baked and filled with bugs

[@elconquistador3340]

@@xanzuls the important ones are functional at least much more compared to blender. Just look what some of the ex devs of tangent said about blender and how crazy someone would be to integrate into a pipeline. You are just looking at the shiny stuff and call it a day.

[@tlilmiztli]

The only life changing thing for me, after using Blender for over a decade, was ditching it and switching to Maya :D

[@hopeless2005m]

why they so happy actually there is nothing new in the last 10 years

[@spacejourneywaves5420]

😂

[@sm71485]

Nah man Blender's better

[@ALEXANDER-ic1ib]

that's all ? what the fk are you guys doing with our money?