http://area.autodesk.com/forum/ The Area en Copyright 2013 2013-05-24T04:44:47+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/does-maya-2014-make-use-of-avx2/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/does-maya-2014-make-use-of-avx2/page-last/#When:16:10:37Z If not, are future versions going to? If so, on-the-way Intel Haswell CPU's are really worth a look for upgraders like myself. 2013-05-20T16:10:37+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/thought-for-maya-2015-remove-outdated-features-focus-on-making-newer-stuff-solid/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/thought-for-maya-2015-remove-outdated-features-focus-on-making-newer-stuff-solid/page-last/#When:01:06:41Z I'm loving Maya 2014. There are a ton of big improvements and it is really cool Autodesk so obviously listened to feedback. My biggest wish for Maya 2015 is: [b]remove the outdated stuff. Test the current stuff more.[/b] Here's an example I put on Small Annoying Thing to Fix: [b]Viewport 2.0 by default.[/b] A lot of things in Viewport 2.0 still don't work properly. I think that's because Autodesk is not internally testing it much. Imagine if Autodesk disabled Viewport 1.0 and the HQ Rendering Viewport... and used Viewport 2.0 all of the time for internal development? I think that many Viewport 2.0 issues would get fixed then because Autodesk would be acutally using it and saying "oh wow, NEX doesn't work 100% in Viewport 2.0 on my computer... dithering doesn't work with antialiasing... stereo doesn't work... Paint Effects doesn't work... reflection maps don't work..." http://mayafeedback.autodesk.com/forums/160518-small-annoying-things-to-fix-in-maya-forum/suggestions/3866142-default-to-viewport-2-0-for-autodesk-internal-tes I can think of more cases where Maya has 2 tools that sorta work - and I'd much prefer 1 tool that works really well: [b]Mental Ray & Maya Renderer [/b]- turn off the Maya Renderer by default and just work on helping 3rd-party renderers (including Mental Ray, which should be the shipping default) work 100% and be better-integrated. [b]Shatter & DMM[/b] - Shatter is ancient and often just doesn't work. DMM is not a solution either since it's limited to very low polygons unless you buy the full version. Boy would it be nice if we just had a modern Shatter that worked properly. Or Autodesk licensed the full DMM. Or integrated one of the other shatter plugins. Or integrated SoUP... [b]Dynamics & nDynamics[/b] - make nDynamics do everything Dynamics can do. Then kill Dynamics. Does anyone else feel the same way? What old tools would you sacrifice for the greater good? Bruce Allen Senior Theatrical Designer - mOcean 2013-05-13T01:06:41+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/view-image-file-window/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/view-image-file-window/page-last/#When:18:09:49Z I'm a 3DS Max transfer and have now become quite fond of MAYA since I think 4 or 5, but by no means an expert! In 3DS Max there is an option to open an image file for modeling reference in a separate window within Max which always stays on top. This is a feature I desperately want in Maya! This is NOT an image plane to model off of but an IMAGE FILE i can get the details from that don't show in a drawing. Currently I open images or groups of images(NOT SEQUENCES) in the default OS program. This is fine with a dual monitor setup, where I throw the reference images to the other screen. But what about when I'm on my laptop on the go or have no other monitor? Currently I'd have to open the same program, have it underneath MAYA and flip back and forth, which is a very big hassle over time. I'd like to be able to open a small, resizable window WITHIN maya and view the image file(or files!) there so I can move it around my workspace and glance over to it in an instant. Currently all the suggestions I keep getting is to put it on an image plane. WHAT! these few more steps are quite preposterous when I just wish to open an image; boom its there. I still want my four of all of my panels to work with. With it being resizable i can even shrink it down to get the gist in the upper right corner where no icons are even zoom in on parts with such a small window, but WOW what a HUGE asset such a small thing would be. Thank you for your time, William 2013-04-10T18:09:49+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/renders-engine/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/renders-engine/page-last/#When:02:27:05Z [b]Hi all take a think if you can :) why that virtual camera [color=red]render[/color]coding forcing. Why it doesn't work like a [color=red]Camera[/color] real CAM so think a little, we are recording in the real life on one hand while real cam rendering never forsing but virtual render's cam always forcing, can you do something on this issue ? That's why Im talking about it for give inspiration. [/b] 2013-04-03T02:27:05+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/maya-2014-wish-list/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/maya-2014-wish-list/page-last/#When:02:25:32Z Hi All , Autodesk Please stop making minor updates on Maya Fluids and N-Particles Today we have a better solution of Dynamics which is Houdini. The point of Suggestion is the tools which Maya renovate or Brought to its user after a long wait of one year is supposed to be non_fruit ful and some times Disgusting after having a look at Houdini 12 version i got shocked the way they are bringing revolution and evolution in their F.X Pipelines so why not a studio revert from maya to Houdini . Its my extreme request to all the Talented scientist of Autodesk to bring such a revolution in C.g which no one can compete.Since its Our life to Pick one software in one life and it cant not be changed at any cost so please understand the list of request from urs users and revert also other wise who will Trust U? Wishes 1.Topology Reconstruction tools 2.Strong Fluids and resolution independent Technology. 3.Better Fur and Fedback and Fur Handling system totally obsolete. 4.Strong G.I and F.g calculations better mental ray Renderings. 5.In corporation of more Lights and Different shapes for real world physics . 6.Strong water and liquids simulation tools Update fluids extremly slow in progress. And Make maya to capitalize graphics requirements instead of saying go for Tesla quality cards which does not comes handy to every ones Pocket. Better and fast intuitive tools of Polygons to compete Modo and Max Polyboost.[size=3][/size][color=red][/color] 2013-03-30T02:25:32+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/decomposition-of-large-meshes-according-to-the-morph-targetblendshape-hierarchy/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/decomposition-of-large-meshes-according-to-the-morph-targetblendshape-hierarchy/page-last/#When:16:39:22Z I currently export one-mesh models via FBX/Collada from DAZ Studio; with bone hierarchy and morph targets; and import those one-mesh models into Maya 2013; in order to export special .mor files (files containing blendshape information for Unity3D/MEGA-FIERS) What I'm after is generally speaking: - Automatic Decomposition of (large) meshes according to the morph target/blendshape hierarchy; so that I have a separate mesh for the head (when dealing with human characters) and so on; and can morph-animate those separate meshes dedicatedly later on I have no idea if Maya 2013 itself could be of help for this task ! Anyway: I am grateful for any hint/help You Good Fellows can provide to me ! 2013-03-19T16:39:22+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/integrated-game-engine---unlimited-detail-rendering---mesh-to-paintfx/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/integrated-game-engine---unlimited-detail-rendering---mesh-to-paintfx/page-last/#When:09:15:36Z I would like to mention some features I would like to see in Maya someday. Here's my list and descriptions: 1. Integrated game engine – make your models, animations, materials and/or textures, and add physics, AI, mouse/keyboard/joystick events, etc (everything from hair to cloth as well in-game simulated with Unlimited Detail as described next). All of the game code should be handled “in the background”, so users just click buttons to add certain AI to their models for example. 2. Unlimited Detail rendering – something I'd love to see in Maya as I've seen running in a game like scene that was rather large in scale I think, and it was showcased on YouTube. Just search YouTube for “Unlimited Detail Real-Time Rendering Technology Preview 2011”. I'd like it if this could be run as a part of the above mentioned integrated game engine as well as all over in Maya. That way People could make any amount of polygons they want in a mesh, without worries about the graphics card too much. I think the “Unlimited Detail” video said something about a Point Cloud mesh convertor for 3ds Max and Maya so users can convert their Polygon meshes to point cloud data meshes. The video of Unlimited Detail is pretty amazing from what I saw. They even made a rock from a 3d scan of a real rock, and brought it into their 3d point cloud data mesh world they made. The speaker of the video said that the company they work at is a technology company, not a game company. Their graphics were still very well made in my opinion. 3. Mesh to PaintFX – Make a mesh in Maya or any other modeling software (of course import it to Maya first), optionally provide a changeable texture or material of any of the following for example: color, specular, bump, displacement, alpha map etc.. Then just click on a tab in the PaintFX window, and the tab would say something like “My PaintFX”, and there should be a button for adding a custom mesh to make it into a PaintFX brush both in 2d and 3d automatically. If anyone agrees or disagrees with any of my future feature wishes, please tell me why you agree or disagree. Would anyone like to add on to my descriptions of my wished for features of Maya? 2012-10-22T09:15:36+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/please-implement-iray-for-maya-2013-uses-cuda-for-gpu-rendering/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/please-implement-iray-for-maya-2013-uses-cuda-for-gpu-rendering/page-last/#When:06:32:42Z Autodesk Maya team, Please implement iray for maya. At least as a plugin or bonus tool that lets maya access the features of mental ray 3.10. Really just including the libiray.dll libiraymr.dll and cudart64_40_17.dll in bonus tools would be a good start. After all it was the first GPU render available and now it's been beaten into maya by octane and vray. Seeing as now it supports shaders that are usable in mental ray and it does object blur. I'd prefer it over Octane. Anyone who'd like to see iray in maya please +1 on this thread. This is the link if you want to hack it in yourself http://elementalray.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/iray-in-maya-2013/ The link from Michael Kaplan in 2009 when iray was introduced! Go Michael ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhXBx8l0iso 2012-10-17T06:32:42+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/cuda-for-dynamics/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/cuda-for-dynamics/page-last/#When:07:31:27Z when autodesk introduce cuda use for dynamics, Nparticles and fluids??? i found already someone that made it for fluids.... hardware avaibles today let's this possible..... why not use it? http://www.foliativ.net/book/index.php?post/2011/03/04/Cuda-Fluid-Solver-Plugin 2012-10-10T07:31:27+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/rhino-grasshopper-like-tool-for-maya/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/wishlist/rhino-grasshopper-like-tool-for-maya/page-last/#When:03:52:09Z please, draw attention at Rhino Grasshopper® plug-in, we need response to this in Maya extremely. 2012-10-07T03:52:09+02:00