I’d love to see some better material previews so that you don’t have to guess & render all the time.

3ds Max 2013, Maya 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Core i7, 12GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 (Driver 297.03)

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auto-retopotools, kickstand stretchmesh like deformer, simple autorigging tools like CAT are long overdue.

I’d like to see something nobody ever imagined when it comes to 3D apps, like PaintFX. Something that would make the 2012 release unforgettable.

anzovin studio plugin very very good and fast.

i know how cool it feels when u have new features.
I just hope maya 2012 wont be all bout that: http://www.cgrecord.net/2011/02/maya-technology-preview.html
Because the priority should be on making things simply WORK, many things are broken an buggy in Maya holding Maya back in the race (specially when compared to the Max Excalibur project), from Mental Ray integration to paint effects to render passes and paint effects,slow and buggy interface,just to name a fiew.
I really hope this version will maya completely robust and ready for production for vfx/animation/gaming/viz (specially for little studios that dont have the in house tools for Maya that makes it capable of delivering productions like Alice in wonderland and Tron).

Please a good partice system!!!
Particle flow, thinking particle, ice… ,

Every other software has much better system!!!!!
We need it!!!!!!

Thx

Please a good partice system!!!
Particle flow, thinking particle, ice… ,

Every other software has much better system!!!!!
We need it!!!!!!

Thx

1.  Add a transparency sheet over perspective and other orthographic views to allow a director to make comments/suggestions on a pose/animation. Instead of having an expert touch your model, the transparency sheet allows him/her to draw on it to make suggestions for improvements.
a). It should include multi color pencils/markers like sketchbook pro.
b). Keep Image like in Maya Render Window, with slider at bottom, or give a user the choices of “slider bar” or “image superimpose swipe” for comparing the left and right image like in Nuke. Of course there should be a transparency/opacity adjuster
c). Add a comments to the transparency, and a bookmark that pops up an image drawn on the transparency sheet to show at what frame the director wanted a certain pose or animation.

2.  Add a search box simply by pressing Tab and then type in whatever tools or command a person wants. Instead of hunting through each top menu and then going down menus after menus to look for “sculpt geometry”.

3.  Improvement to Maya’s Fluid to make it like Realflow or Lagoa.

4.  Allow curve extraction on Nurbs objects after using Make Live on nurbs. Curve extraction works only on poly objects.

5.  Bug fixes to maya ncloth. Transform Constraint acts weird. Maya sometimes selects certain CVs without the user’s selection. Tear Constraint doesn’t behave right too when selection certain CVs to tear.

6.  Allow fluid dynamics to interact with ncloth to create cloth on fire

7.  Allow easy Mocap import into maya without headaches.

1.  Add a transparency sheet over perspective and other orthographic views to allow a director to make comments/suggestions on a pose/animation. Instead of having an expert touch your model, the transparency sheet allows him/her to draw on it to make suggestions for improvements.
a). It should include multi color pencils/markers like sketchbook pro.
b). Keep Image like in Maya Render Window, with slider at bottom, or give a user the choices of “slider bar” or “image superimpose swipe” for comparing the left and right image like in Nuke. Of course there should be a transparency/opacity adjuster
c). Add a comments to the transparency, and a bookmark that pops up an image drawn on the transparency sheet to show at what frame the director wanted a certain pose or animation.

2.  Add a search box simply by pressing Tab and then type in whatever tools or command a person wants. Instead of hunting through each top menu and then going down menus after menus to look for “sculpt geometry”.

3.  Improvement to Maya’s Fluid to make it like Realflow or Lagoa.

4.  Allow curve extraction on Nurbs objects after using Make Live on nurbs. Curve extraction works only on poly objects.

5.  Bug fixes to maya ncloth. Transform Constraint acts weird. Maya sometimes selects certain CVs without the user’s selection. Tear Constraint doesn’t behave right too when selection certain CVs to tear.

6.  Allow fluid dynamics to interact with ncloth to create cloth on fire

7.  Allow easy Mocap import into maya without headaches.

*Add more setup tools for rigging and animation, bidirectionsl constraints, movable pivot, space switching.
*Update dynamics like hair, rigid bodies, fur modules, liquids. Build an Ice like simulation system combined with nucleus.
*Update the hypershade and hypergrapsh to enhance the connection worklike softimage.
*Soup is great.

I will agree with the need of implementing ICE and lagoa stuff in maya.

Also need a better hair, fur support with advanced tools to paint and edit the hair in many ways.
Using renderman everyday it is a big missing stuff in maya and shave is too limited.

we need a solid viewport 2 with everything supported in it and not only working on big cards.

open the rendering part to be accessible to others renderer and not just MR, by the way kill maya software.

rebuild the hypershade entirely to be faster and better.

add a new painting tool. for texture and for geometry.

add new paintfx capability like houdini L-system.

debug everything, the main issue with maya are the bugs, someone are really annoying in a every day basis.

that’s all for now but Ithink I’m late maya 2012 is going to be release soon…