Maya 2025

oglu

There are some interesting modeling improvements in the latest maya.

As you can imagine they arnt perfect. If someone finds an issue with a mesh and smart extrude please post it here.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-21E37C98-B7CA-4B9A-9883-8276FD8AB819

oglu

https://youtu.be/1u8fW9NjfCE?si=NUj9yNfyEhV-2TJo

jStins

Smart extrude looks ace.

Alex_J

looks incredible i hate to change versions but i am going to have to. last few iterations of maya really bringing extremely useful things

Eric Chadwick

Thanks for the great video. SmartExtrude came from Max, where it's been for a while now. Looking forward to more movement between Autodesk's tools. Like more of the sweet USD support from Maya coming over to Max. 

oglu

https://youtu.be/czqOhDzyd3g?si=QYB6TxzHb5Mq1CD3

Alex_J

I spent twenty minutes looking for the 2025 bonus tools... turns out it is now included as a plugin, just turn it on from the plugin manager.

mpuLse

Eric Chadwick said:

Thanks for the great video. SmartExtrude came from Max, where it's been for a while now. Looking forward to more movement between Autodesk's tools. Like more of the sweet USD support from Maya coming over to Max. 

Hell yeah, I hope Autodesk takes note and starts trying to just spread the love where it's needed between the two programs.

I always said if Maya had smoothing group control like Max's, plus it's turbo smooth, and edit poly modifier it'd be insanely dangerous. But at the same time.. they're not trying to make one program obsolete by having them both do the exact same stuff.

Steps in the right direction, however. Still love Max though.

gandhics

Unfortunately Maya smart extrude is just not as good as Max's even tho it is from same root. Just like Nitrous vs Viewport 2.0. The fundamental matters. Try smart extrude in Max and Maya. You can tell the difference.