Maya 2020

oglu

Some really cool rigging and animation features. 
I also lije the Standard Shader based on materialX. 


https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2020/ENU/

https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/maya-usd/

kaspersp

Feels pretty underwhelming... 

Also, aren't the VFX industry supposed to change to Python 3 as a standard in 2020? 

oglu

For animation and pipeline is a huge release.
And Python 3 is in the works.

Most development energy is on USD and Bifrost.

SebKaine

Thanks for sharing.

Do they unify Bifrost solver in one place. Or do they have keep separated FLIP and Pyro ?

No  native USD for 2020 ?

oglu

Bifrost does have a unified MPM solver. But its not about simulation its about Visual Programming.
Volume modeling and Rigging are also on the roadmap.

Here some examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHQFcLb-rQ
https://vimeo.com/353466611
https://vimeo.com/350025715

More Background Info about Bifrost.
https://beforesandafters.com/2019/11/18/a-bifrost-journey/

USD is ready but you have to compile it yourself. There are plans to ship Binaries. 
https://github.com/Autodesk/maya-usd
https://github.com/Autodesk/arnold-usd

SebKaine

Thanks for your detail answer Oglu, bifrost looks interesting, but not clean / mature enough imo to compete with DOPS and to justify to learn a new dyn solver. That would be sweet to be able to manipulate bifrost as a standalone solver like naiad to avoid the extra weight of Maya and to fasten the solves. Well the good news for Maya user is that Maya looks to get all the love at AD. 

 

oglu

There is a commandline tool.
https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/bifcmd-bifrost-engine-and-bifrost-compute-jobs-explained/

SebKaine

Thanks for precision Oglu ! 

oglu

But i totally agree Bifrost needs an other year to cook.

oglu

https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/introducing-maya-2020/

Andreicus

Yeah, i received the notification on my email this morning. The problem is that 95 % of the new features are for animators and riggers.
For modeling the increased viewport performance is always welcome and the fact that they ( finally ) introduced the polyRemesh and polyRetopo as standard tools is a good thing, maybe they are more stable and overall better now.

Arnold fully GPU is also good but i use real time rendering even for hard surface design so for me it doesn't change anything.

Good release overall, finally some new features. I also noticed that Autodesk is more active on Twitter, they probably feel some pressure from other softwares.

Still no announcement for Maya indie EU and i don't know if i can move from Maya LT to Indie without paying anything or only the difference ( if any ) if i renew my sub and if they release it next year.

oglu

Some rigging tutorials for Maya2020.




https://youtu.be/TCkOS4F51MI

Andreicus

I noticed that they set the undo to infinite by default instead of 50. I used to set them to 200 for avoiding memory leaks but i don't know if it matters anymore.

oglu

Infinity could be a bit risky. Autodesk does have a strange opinion how the hardware of a "Standard" Arist looks like.
VFX Studio Workstations tend to have dual Quadro/Geforce Cards and 256GB of ram. Which isnt the norm for Games.

Andreicus

oglu said:

Infinity could be a bit risky. Autodesk does have a strange opinion how the hardware of a "Standard" Arist looks like.
VFX Studio Workstations tend to have dual Quadro/Geforce Cards and 256GB of ram. Which isnt the norm for Games.

I set them up to 200 like usual. It's more than enough. 
I think they set the undos to infinite for beginners because someone on the forum said that the default 50 undos were too few for a beginner that make a lot of mistakes. 

oglu

Good overview for Maya2020

https://autodesk.wistia.com/medias/s9j0js60l2