3ds Max & Maya Updates to USD
Autodesk has released the 2024 line of products including 3ds Max and Maya. My role these days is pushing USD into both products and various workflows. Although USD started in the Film industry, it's quickly becoming a prevalent aspect of Games as well.
USD is one of the several Open-Source projects that we are embracing and investing in at Autodesk.
In Maya we've improved Shot-Based Animation that allows animators to go back and forth between Maya rigs and USD data, added support for USD in Display Layers and added part one of starting to support relative paths in USD.
Learn more about Maya 2024. USD for Maya comes bundled with Maya.
In Max, we improved our USD SDK, improved viewport display of USD stages and added support in our exporter to send Skin modifiers into USDSkel.
Learn more about 3ds Max 2024. USD for Max is currently a separate download from your Autodesk account.