Ģ - Faster loading of files: Maya 2016 loaded files twice faster than Maya 2017.ģ - Free batch render with Arnold: this sound more like a dream, but hey… Dorothy went back to Kansas how you sell Maya as a final product? that´s a total lie, shame on you Autodesk.Ĥ - Faster dynamics for hair and ncloth: at the moment creating a hair description with interactive grooming, even if the hairs have not been animated the time slider is affected by xgen like if they were animated.ĥ - Faster Wrap deformer: while working with tight cloth, wrap deformer does 10 times a better work than bind and doesn´t requires infinite hours to correct weights, binding cloth and copy weights and correcting weights is a real waist of time, wrap deformer does an awesome job but the price is a slower timeslider, this is a problem asked to be fixed since more than 5 years and never got solved, wrap deformer still slow to edit and to animate.

Since Autodesk´s Maya 2017 release was a total disaster, and i still can heard Maxon´s Cinema 4D celebrating after Autodesk´s new renderer doesn´t batch render and Autodesk offers Maya as a final high price value product, but in reality you cant work without extra licenses or you get watermarks and even Mental Ray wich was free became another product, there must be plenty of people wondering, why continue to invest in Maya?įrom my personal experience, here is my wishlist of Top 10 features for Autodesk´s Maya 2018:ġ - Improvement of Maya Software and hardware for rendering: If Autodesk has a renderer that doesn´t renders any new feature and needs to buy another one that also requires extra licenses to work without watermarks, what they really should do is develope its own powerfull renderer, insteed of having a renderer “just in case” wich no one uses.

Mental ray for maya 2018 student