Christoph lendenfelds viewport 2 extension onion skin for maya. How is it compared to hq rendering in small scenes. It delivers viewport and sequencer enhancements, nodebased render passes, editable motion trails, and a new library of 80 substance procedural textures. Click in the maya status line or in the material viewer toolbar to pause updates. Autodesk is headquartered in san rafael, california, and features a gallery of its customers work in its san francisco building. Version 2 was first introduced with the maya 2012 release as maya hardware 2. In this lecture, eric keller explores the new features and functionality of maya 2015s viewport 2. Crossplatform 3d animation tool autodesk maya 2015 is available for download on mac and windows today featuring better simulation of photorealistic liquids, support in viewport 2. Keep in mind that maya has some issues with an intel gpu. Using a skybox has become an issue, and characters mechanical and organic are displaying a low lit golden wireframe around them in the viewport.
Game development stack exchange is a question and answer site. This allows you to make changes in your scene without having to wait for the editors to update. Ive been doing some research on using mayas viewport 2. Seemingly an after thought nitrous stylized effects supposedly can display nonphotorealistic effects.
I just tried loading one of my cgfx shaded example scenes to see what worked and what didnt. This video shows you how to select and manipulate objects in your scene. Christoph lendenfelds viewport 2 extension onion skin for. The described techniques allow you to view transparency, environment reflections. Jan 20, 2015 for maya versions 2014 and 2015, version 3. Photogrammetry and camera projection mapping in maya made. Explore how to use the new features in maya 2017 extension 3, including the new uv editor interface, the symmetrize uv tool, and viewport 2. Maya 2012 introduced a new set of api classes for defining custom drawing, shading and effects in both viewport 2. Book rigger is the one click page turn solution for 3ds max.
I have had about two day to play around with maya 20 and i must say it is more stable, faster, and the new nhair works like a charm. Oct 28, 2014 development in maya has been takes placed though out the times but some major upgradation comes in 2012, after introduction of the highperformance viewport 2. Now, you can render your scene in maya using viewport 2. Post jobs, find pros, and collaborate commissionfree in our professional marketplace. Maya legacy default and legacy hq viewport slow viewport. Im having a major issue with textures in viewport 2. There are many downsides and too many missing features on the vp2. Performance tests for three types of rendering mental ray, maya software and maya hardware 2. Srp when purchasing 1 year term 3ds max or maya subscription. Extension attributes introduced in maya 2012 allows static. Development in maya has been takes placed though out the times but some major upgradation comes in 2012, after introduction of the highperformance viewport 2. Game development stack exchange is a question and answer site for professional and independent game developers.
It can be used as a batch renderer or in the viewport under the. They work fine in the regular default quality and high quality modes, but 2. To switch to the other renderers, you can select the legacy default viewport or legacy high quality viewport options from the renderer panel menu. Furthermore, it provides much better performance for polygons and tessellation, and improves. Unrivaled in its ability to capture the subtlety and complexity of fluid gas behavior it is favored among visual effects artists, game developers, visualization professionals and everyone else who demand the utmost in. This is why christoph lendenfeld decided to make a new tool that was a viewport extension that mimicked the features of a 2d onion skin tool. After binding your geometry to a skeleton or joint and selecting display polygons vertices, your vertices are colored. It allows user to change parameters during the simulation with instant feedback within the gpu accelerated maya viewport 2. The vertex animation cache option provides more interactive scrubbing of your animation, and the thread dependency graph evaluation option provides better performance by evaluating separate characters in separate threads. Day before yesterday it started crashing on load with a random.
I would imagine autodesk is working to make viewport 2. See all the new features in maya software for 3d computer animation, modeling, and rendering. Copy to mayas buffers mquadrender deferred viewport 2. As the title says, when i load scenes the particular ones im working with as of late the default and hq viewport run slow as heck. May 10, 2011 the highperformance viewport introduced with maya 2011 now offers fullscreen effects.
Ross for an indepth discussion in this video matting objects with viewport 2. Fumefx is a powerful fluid dynamics plugin for autodesk maya and 3ds max, designed for simulation and rendering of realistic explosions, fire, smoke and other gaseous phenomena. Apr 09, 2011 this is a simple test with the new maya 2012 and viewport 2. Post your tests and conclusions about maya 2012s viewport 2. Reviews 34 support forum 2 bugs 1 feature requests 4 version history mit license license. Most onion skin tools are a bit heavy to use in maya.
To switch to the other renderers, you can select the legacy default viewport or legacy high quality. The mdgmodiferdeletenode function goes well, but maya then crashes instantaneously only in viewport 2. But do you loose anything with using it all the time. See new motion graphics, time editor, bifrost, and xgen features. My assumption is that maya still has in its queue to launch the preparefordraw and draw functions for all locators, but as i deleted one of them, maya is crashing. How to change a maya scene files selected viewport renderer. Upgrades associated with the migration from maya 2009 to maya 2012. Book rigger v3 for 3dsmax animation scripts plugins. To install the maya help to your computer or to a local network location, click an installers above that are marked ext include documentation for autodesk maya 2012 user guide pdf. The lower ones dont make any difference in my test. Maya 2012 features a similar viewport system dubbed viewport 2. Composite scores that are weighted to better reflect performance of shading and texturing features most used by maya customers. With book rigger it is extremely easy to make complex and accurate page and book animations inside 3ds max. Thus, in part, this document also serves as a transition guide from the old rendering interfaces to the new.
The fumefx user interface is tightly integrated within maya attribute editor and combines all the major fluid simulation components making the simulation setup easy and efficient. Photogrammetry and camera projection mapping in maya made easy. We denote anything new as version 2 and anything old as version 1. Fidelity of lighting and materials is also much improved in viewport 2. In my persp viewport, while trying to do rotate panning zooming, it is severely lagging where the fps fluctuates between 0. Support for iray is noticeably missing in maya 2012 already available in 3ds max 2012, so maya users will have to be happy with node based render passes in hypershade as the main rendering improvement in this release. Enable display heads up display viewport renderer to see viewport 2. And of course the autodesk lawyer post that follows. Maya online courses, classes, training, tutorials on lynda. First appeared in maya 2011, in maya 2012 viewport 2. Thanked 0 times in 0 posts invisible objects in viewport. Now it supports fullscreen effects, such as antialiasing. It can be used as a batch renderer or in the viewport under the name viewport 2.
How to change a maya scene files selected viewport. This can sometimes apply even if you have a dedicated gpu. I just installed the trial version of maya 2012 on a new machine, and im playing around with the new viewport 2. This is a simple test with the new maya 2012 and viewport 2. This can be especially useful when you have a complex scene. I have a laptop with an 960m, and the intel gpu causes me a lot of issues with viewport 2.