Maya Wish List

[joojaa]

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-Quaternion for motion path or something to fix esealy the probs of flipping

easily fixed: make the path on a surface a very small ribbon will suffice! Its quite easy to do. And a s a bonus you get real fotation controll!

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-Rotation of the scale pivot

this can be quite easily scripted. Especialy if you allow yourself some latitude in doing things and create a extra empty transform. Now just rotate the transform and parent. if you need it other ways then unparent and rotate. But yeah animating this is not so fun. Altough it can be done since the scales translate to the three axes!

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-Possibility to constraint an object on a cluster and not only the cluster on an object, to make what does the "rivet" mel (cf softimage)

Umm... you just said rivet mel does this... so why do you need it in the firstplace. Its not like the rivet mel aqctualy does something maya want ever designed to do. it just combines things differently. (most maya scripts do, its not like they developpers have or should have done all the possible variationa... hey you would have 50 mensuets instead of 5 then!)

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FX:
A better paticle instancer, possibility to use an animated object rather than a break down its anim. And the hability to make easily control and a random off the birth state, to make an asynchronous flock

Yeah, but then it wouldnt be an instancer! The idea behind the instancer is to make a huge number of objects with minimal overheads. Now if you made this work wich you could than it would consume wast amounts of memory and 1,5 gigs very fast gets to be peanuts.

Make a serch on boids.

But it would offcourse be cool to have massive

PS no one actualy logs this thread so go to the side suggested in some post above or to aw... Anyway the wish list thats going on is pure [censored] just because most users requast redundant stuff.

[qwigs]

A corner tool to segment isoprams on a nurbs patch.
That would make my day

[gmask]

I don't quite understand that request.. could you elaborate? Thanks

[yeepeee]

Joojaa,

Thanks for your reply and tips

Find by yourself answers for things that should be written in the doc is very boring and time consuming, ex for the motion path, why Alias don't say in the f*** manual that a flipping may occurs in some case, then give a with the work around, it's a big limitation, why don't they tell it ?

About the rivet mel, this mel is very usefull but got limitations, i'd like to have the possibility to use the point constraint with any poly element (vertice(s), edge(s), face(s)) and nurbs ones (vertice(s), isoparm(s), isoparm(s) intersection(s)), or clusters etc...

About the instancer, i'd like an easy way to make let's say a flock of birds that flap their wings not all at the same times and at the same speed.

But you'r right mel scripting is often the solution, unfortunatly i'm not yet comfortable with.

About the redudancy, yes i read almost all the posts, and i saw for example that the wheel request is frequent , but less than redundancy it could be interpreted as insistence.

[joojaa]

In reply to:
Find by yourself answers for things that should be written in the doc is very boring and time consuming, ex for the motion path, why Alias don't say in the f*** manual that a flipping may occurs in some case, then give a with the work around, it's a big limitation, why don't they tell it ?

Well actualy they do tell this limitation in the manual... They dont just go around repeating it all the time.

But its more of a maths thing, and unfortunately theres not any very intuitive controll for this.

Unfortunately the manual cant realy tell all uses and fixes... you just coudnt ever ever read it trough if it was. I mean i do a lot of things i bet the designers never tought of doing, but i do them none theless without problems. Thats why maya is so GOOD.

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About the instancer, i'd like an easy way to make let's say a flock of birds that flap their wings not all at the same times and at the same speed.

Make several copies of the birds and let the particles choose on of theese instances. This said the instancer is due to an overhaul. But it would probably be realy eventfull to make ana instancer a boid system is what you describe.

But theres scripts of doing this copying based on a particle atribute basis. Bevere tough it is very very expensive form a rendering standpoint! Bit so are boids.

[redpixel]

[Modeling]
Fixed Bevel tool, Soft selection tool, edge loop split, split over multiple edges to be implemented into the poyl split tool. i.e. when you split faces with polysplit tool you can split pass mutiple number of face/edges to save time for clicking on each edge.

[Rendering]
Fix the AA problem. Fix the mental ray "cannot start thread 9" erorr when mental ray hangs up maya.
Fix displacement shader, when drop a texture map (image file) into displacement then render, maya crashes with runtime error.

[Dynamics]
Fix crash bug with more then 10 softbody surfaces in the scene crash.

[luke-werhli]

I would like to have the option to control light

[gmask]

You allready have this feature either by using IPR or OpenGL to preview the light settings

[luke-werhli]

Better pencil tool, with autosmooth and also with a control for the number of cvs.

[graphico]

The ability to use inches and feet as a standard mesure in the channel box would go along way twords getting maya into the hands of those in Architecture and visualization.
Auch

[gmask]

Well you can change the units to use inches or have a MEL interface that converts measurements in feet inbches and fractions thereof into something that the channel box understands.

For the sake of argument could you describe exactly what it would need to do be useable.. maybe some kind soul could whip this up for ya

[boody]

variable radius fillets with improved round tool selection

[user_deleted]

Fcheck could have 4:3 and 16:9 modes the same way it has show alpha/z-buffer/rgb - modes

/risto

[amplexis]

i'm waiting for poweranimator like filesysystem interface. with visual representations of scenes, shaderballs you can browse on disk, easy sorting and file management and all those other disk management tools alias still includes with studio.

[joojaa]

Maya allready makes thumbnails for use with visor?! you can have maya make thos shaderballs for you automaticaly!

[mikedin]

Yes maya builds the shader swatches which is great but The one thing it doesn't do which I though was hokey orginally in MAX but have come to love is the option to generate a thumbnail of a scene file or .mb file.

Almost all other packages I use, PS, CAD, and yes MAX etc. have this capability.

[joojaa]

You can do that wiyth that in renderview! under view -> grab swatch to hypershade/visor! now all you need is to hotkey this.

[kinetiktem]

I have 1 and only request.

16 BIT FILE INPUT!!

[deke-kincaid]

Doesn't maya already handle this? I have used 16 bit files in maya. Does it just downgrade them to 8 bit when it renders?

[gmask]

I know that Mental ray uses 16 bit textures and I allways thought Maya could as well.. I don't think I've ever tried it.