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Over the years, Maya has delivered top-quality updates to help you work faster and more efficiently. We continue to focus on creating more artist-friendly experiences across disciplines.
Over the past 5 years
Product Updates
Total Enhancements
Customer Ideas
2023
2023
Blue Pencil 2D Drawing Tools
Cached playback improvements
Animation performance improvements
USD across Maya's toolset
USD in Bifrost
Bifrost updates
Enhanced Boolean toolset
Retopologize enhancements
Faster manipulation of mesh components
QuadDraw performance improvements
New mesh wireframe opacity settings
Rigging improvements for better precision
A more artist-friendly Maya
New interactive tutorials
Faster Rendering Experience with Arnold
Unreal Live Link for Maya (version 1.1)
2023.1
New Options for Boolean Operations
Vertex Color Changes
Improved USD Integration
Capabilities in Arnold
Operator SDK in Bifrost (requires seperate download)
Other capabilities in Bifrost (requires seperate download)
New UI Layout
Asset Linking
Bi-Directional Playhead
Creation of Unreal assets directly in the Maya UI
Character streaming can be paused
2022
2022
Seamless USD integration
New Ghosting Editor
Additive animation clips
Smooth (Gaussian) filter in the Graph Editor
Component Tags
Morph Deformer
New Sweep Mesh tool
Create VR for Maya
Smoother startup experience
Python 3
Cached Playback support in the Time Editor
Peak Removal filter in the Graph Editor
New Auto Tangent types
Deformer Falloffs
Skin Bunding using Proximity Wrap
Game Vertex Count plugin
Arnold 6.2
2020
2020.2
Target Weld Tool: Preserve UVs option
Vertical Splitter Bar for Outliner
New Outliner Sets contextual menu
Reserve namespaces for unloaded references
Run Viewport 2.0 in OpenGL mode on a remote desktop
Substance plugin update: New scripting commands and upgraded UI
Arnold for Maya update: Export Arnold scene data in USD format
Bifrost for Maya update
2020.3
Paint Skin Weights Tool improvements
Merge BaseAnimation layer on import
Script Editor improvements: New RMB menu and hotkeys for managing tabs
Updated ATF plugin: Catia V5 R6 2020 and JT support
HumanIK: Neck Motion Reduction setting
New Show Animated Shapes option in the Graph Editor
Bifrost 2.1
Import Standard Surface with FBX
2020.4
Drag and drop Maya curves into Bifrost graphs
New fields system in Bifrost
Bifrost volume tool improvements
Aero solver improvements
Arnold 6.1 integrated
Substance plugin update
Bifrost graph shape nodes
Bifrost scatter pack
MPM solver: Accurate collisions and self-collisions
Instantly terminate Bifrost simulations
Motion Library update
2019
2019
Cached Playback
Arnold updates in Viewport 2.0
Faster snapping, selection, and scene loading in Viewport 2.0
Butterworth filter in the Graph Editor
Key Reducer in the Graph Editor
Prune and smooth weight options in the Bake Deformer
New sample characters in the Content Browser
Pipeline integration improvements
2019.1
Render Setup and Light Editor improvements
Cached Playback updates
Outliner option in Interface Preferences
New Launch Scene Lint window tool in Evaluation Toolkit
2019.2
Bifrost for Maya visual programming environment
Physically-based solvers for aerodynamics and combustion
Material Point Method (MPM) solver for granular and cloth simulation
New high-performance particle system
Rendering-friendly instancing
Final-pixel previews of effects in the Arnold Viewport
New Substance 2.0 plugin
Render Setup and Light Editor improvements
FBX 2019.5
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