I like Maya and am looking forward to Maya 2012.  But based on what I’ve seen, it is still going to be lacking a lot of the modeling and mental ray improvements that many have been anxiously awaiting.  I think it would be great if the next release of Maya could be known throughout history as the “Modeling and mental ray Integration” release.

3ds Max 2013, Maya 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Core i7, 12GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 (Driver 267.17)

Indeed modeling tool aren’t maya’s forte. Proper symetry and more advanced tool to deformed and edit model.

As much as I would like nucleus to grow into something bigger and replace/update more modules in Maya. I would much rather see Modelling and Rendering updates for sure. I consider these areas the bread and butter of almost every project, geometry is almost always needed, and everything needs rendering. I enjoy Maya’s marking menu approach, and enjoy using it as a modelling tool, unfortunately it is missing some more advanced tools, and overall feels a bit buggy. Mental ray looks dated compared to Vray2 these days, so it would be great to some some major improvements to Mental ray. I’m 100% for keeping Maya 2013 focuced to these two areas, as long as the improvements are substantial.

I think that mentalray plugin should be integrated more effeciently,right now the translation takes huge time with complex scenes,and once a render starts the whole system becomes inactive,the ESC key doesn’t help,many times I have to kill maya process in the Task Manager,
the Finalgather gives nice renders but it’s a high ressource demanding.
I wish Maya 2013 be entirely reviewed towards effeciency,stability, and seamlessly intergrated within existing OS and crtified for midrange graphics hardware (I found not supporting last few years video card NV X700;X500 and Geforce not very comprehensive).
For cleaver modeling tools Maya Mel will take the challenge.

Wow - what happened to this poll?

Yesterday the “Don’t care. Autodesk just do what you think is best.” option had zero votes, and now it has 127 votes.  To date, this poll only has 130 total views.  That is less than the total vote count for all the options.

Who messed it up?

3ds Max 2013, Maya 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Core i7, 12GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 (Driver 267.17)

Autodesk stop BEAT AROUND THE BUSH, put ICE in Maya ( more procedural, more powelfull). The base of modeling is a like every program, mental ray is the slowest of others. Why Don’t you exchange for renderman???? good solution for problems on render.

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Will

Willyan 03 May 2011 03:14 PM

Autodesk stop BEAT AROUND THE BUSH, put ICE in Maya ( more procedural, more powelfull). The base of modeling is a like every program, mental ray is the slowest of others. Why Don’t you exchange for renderman???? good solution for problems on render.



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Will

Licensing cost of adding renderman would either double the cost of maya, or lower the functionality of renderman significantly. Also there is a vast portion of maya users who only know how to use physcially-based renderers and would be unable to use a REYES style renderer. MR sun and sky for instance is widely used by animators or modeller’s who have no need to learn rendering. However then we get a load of washed out blue and orange renders floating everywhere.

ICE would be awesome, however it would require a complete re-write of the whole maya codebase. ICE works well in XSI as its built from the ground up. ICE unfortunately isnt something u can just tack on. Maya’s primary focus is animation, compared to XSI which is now going towards dynamics, and 3DSMax which is going towards architecture/modelling/vis-rendering. I think Maya is significantly lacking and needs to be re-tooled almost completely. It needs updating both in UI and code, and lots of outdated features should be removed e.g. hypergraph, updated ie mentalray, the painfully slow hypershade, or completely re-done e.g. RBD, Hair & fur, general dynamics.

I am disapointed with viewport 2.0, it is a vast step-up from the standard viewport however compared to 3DSMax’s nitrous viewport or XSI’s viewport it is lacking. Its interesting as i left 3DSMax around version 9, then i moved onto Maya around 8/8.5, since then maya has had minor improvements and half-arsed features tacked onto it (nucleus - dont get me wrong its a good solver, but compared to XSI, realflow, houdini is a joke), while 3DSMax has had a major overhaul and imo has leapfrogged maya, the same goes with XSI.

I really would like Maya to add a few simple poly-modeling tools that Max has. Something that works more like the loft compound object and the sweep modifier from Max. Also, adding an extrude modifier to an .ai spline object is very useful. I know that Maya can accomplish the same things, but they are faster and easier in Max and I find myself switching back and forth just to use them, and I would rather just stay in Maya.

should have a facial rig too like FaceRobot,

Manchester Motion capture, Fully Body and Facial http://www.mocapone.com/

I don´t wish to new Maya any new functions. I wish to new version deeply fixing and improvement of current version so we will able to work with without messages like “Maya stop working ...” or “Fatal error ....” . Yes, than I will happy. But you know, fairy tale doesn´t exist ....

Win 7 Pro
NVidia Quadro 4000
Intel i7 980@3,33GHz; 24 GB RAM

Do not care at all for mental ray at all know that V-Ray is here, but would love ‘13 to be known for the modelling release.