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What's New In Maya 6
Maya® 6, the latest version of award-winning Maya software,
is packed with hundreds of new features and enhancements most requested
by our customers to specifically meet artists’ everyday production
demands. Whether you’re a one-person graphic design shop or
large film production facility, Maya 6 can tackle any project, from
the ordinary to the extraordinary!
- Animation – Enhancements to Trax™, the software’s
popular non-linear animation editor has a new user interface,
editing abilities and support for expressions and constraints.
Other additions such as Motion Retargeting and Motion Redirection
give animators unparalleled power and flexibility. Trax™
- Maya Hair – Maya Unlimited now includes a new hair and
dynamic curves feature set to allow artists to quickly and easily
create long hair that reacts naturally to dynamic forces and can
be constrained into hairstyles. These robust native and integrated
tools make creating and working with long hair fast and easy.
- Tools for advanced characters – Improvements in Maya
Cloth streamline the process of creating character clothing; Maya
Fur can now be rendered in mental ray® for Maya – taking
advantage of the advanced lighting effects that mental ray is
famous for.
Enhanced scene management and workflow improvements
- Performance improvements – Maya 6 has been optimized
throughout. For example: the Smooth Proxy is up to 18 times faster,
and Subdivision Surface performance is up to 8 times faster.
- Scene management tools – New file referencing, scene
segmentation and shader organization features make it easier to
manage large data sets, and is particularly useful for film and
game production facilities. Feature Demo
Technology that drives the evolution of 3D – The complexity
of 3D projects continues to grow. Maya allows you to overcome
the challenges of working with dense geometry and animation data
and their associated shading networks.
New levels of interaction and integration with the industry-standard
tools
Adobe® Photoshop® – New integration with the industry’s
favorite texture and matte painting creation tool results in a
more streamlined workflow to make your job easier.
- Web browser in a Maya panel – Create and view interactive
Web pages that can contain MEL scripts in the form of MEL URLs
– an easy way to extend the Maya user interface or manage
assets and scene data. Feature Demo
Support for new file formats, DDS and PNG – Using the DDS
file format is crucial if you’re a game developer working
with Direct X; the PNG format is the standard for game developers
creating titles for the Play Station 2.
Delivers the most requested features to meet everyday production
demands
Unparalleled effects – Improvements in the area of dynamics,
including the new ability to apply deformers to particles, give
you more control over particle effects.
- Significant advances in modeling – Maya 6 contains many
enhancements in the area of modeling to make you more productive:
the new Soft Modification tool combines selection with manipulation
enabling artists to move, scale and rotate a selection with customizable
curve-based falloff. Feature Demo
Paint Effects on polygons – The ever-popular, artist-friendly
Maya Paint Effects can now be used on polygon meshes. Feature
Demo
Continued integration of rendering technologies – Seamless
mental ray integration and interactive high-quality rendering
in the viewport for real-time previews.
- API, MEL and Devkit – Maya 6 gives Maya tool developers
access to more features and toolsets than ever before. The Maya
API provides a number of major new classes including increased
exposure of polygon components and further access to Maya software’s
manipulators.
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