LogInThe update comes with enhanced modeling workflows, new Graph Editor tools, animation performance upgrades, a redesigned Time Slider, and more.
Autodesk has released Maya 2024, a massive update to their flagship 3D animation, modeling, and rendering software. Introducing a slew of new features and updated workflows, the release comes with enhanced modeling workflows, new Graph Editor tools, a brand-new LookDev tool, animation performance upgrades, a redesigned Time Slider, and tons of other improvements and bug fixes.
The highlight of the release is the updates to the Retopologize, Make Live, Quad Draw, Boolean, and Unsmooth tools, which include interface and usability improvements that let modelers produce better results.
Moreover, the release brings brand-new Grab, Smooth, and Smear Curve Sculpting tools to the Graph Editor, which let you instinctively and intuitively shape groups of keys, giving you an easy way to make adjustments on the fly.
Additionally, Maya 2024 brings LookdevX, a novel look-development tool that lets you create USD shade graphs and author custom materials in Maya. With it, you can work directly with USD data to assign, adapt, and create materials within the LookdevX Graph Editor, with LookdevX materials being saved automatically to the USD Layer.
Multiple updates have also been brought to the application's Character animation workflows, including a tool for changing rotation order, support for multiple skin clusters, and a new way to view skin weights numerically.
And here are some more of Maya 2024's features:
- USD for Maya 0.22 plug-in: This release provides important stability fixes and feature updates for workflows such as relative pathing and using display layers with the updated Universal Scene Description (USD) plug-in for Maya.
- Graph Editor Improvements: New tools have been added based on customer feedback to improve commonly-used Graph Editor workflows.
- Animation Performance improvements: This release contains significant animation performance improvements, especially when playing back animation on complex rigs.
- Time Slider Redesign: Maya Time Slider and Range Slider updates have brought several changes, from the way audio is shown, to new color defaults for keys.
- Bifrost 2.7.0.0
- Arnold for Maya 5.3.0
- Substance 2.3.2
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