USD updates in Maya and 3ds Max

shawnolson

The USD team at Autodesk is happy to share the updates to our USD plugins in Maya and 3ds Max. 

Maya:

• Use native camera viewport controls with USD cameras
• See USD Light shapes and pick in viewport
• Exporter now has option to Export a ProxyShape as an Xform with Reference to root layer
• Outliner now allows reloading references on a prim
• Outliner now supports prim Display Color (set in Attribute Editor)
• More… See USD for Maya 0.30 Release Notes

Get the USD update by installing Maya 2025.3 in your Autodesk Account or downloading from the Maya USD Github.

3ds Max:

• USD Property Editor
• USD Snaps for Face, Edge and Vertices
• Draw Modes automation for PointInstancers on Stage
• Added support for Importing USD Curves
• More… See USD for 3ds Max 0.9 Release Notes

Get the Max USD update in your Autodesk Account.

We look forward to any feedback.