#Install mental ray for maya 2016 install
To really take advantage of the Material Viewer you’ll want to make sure to install Mental Ray. That’s pretty cool.Ĭustomizing your layout in the Hypershade All of a sudden it feels like everything you need for shader development is all in one place. The Node Editor replaces the workspace, attributes are directly accessible in their own pane, and a more robust material preview pane has been added. The Hypershade window has undergone a lot of changes in this latest release of Maya. That’s not something I’d use every day, but I could see it being a real time saver when utilizing the layered animation workflow. What’s that mean? Rather than using the Set Key option, which keys ALL attributes, you can use that button to create a key only on attributes that previously had animation on them. What did catch my attention though was the new option to Set Key on Animated (attributes). That might be useful, but I don’t think it really fits into my workflow. So if you’re just animating along the TX, TY, and TZ, you can click the Set Key on Translate button. Maya now allows you to set keys on translation, rotation, or scale independently via hotkeys (or a button on the Animation shelf). There aren’t a ton of new additions in the animation toolset within Maya 2016, but there are a few, one of which has me interested. Instead you can use that button on the shelf, OR, map it to a hotkey (I’m looking at you F1 key). As an animator, how often do you create playblasts to review your work? All the fricken time! No more right-clicking the timeline to create a playblast. The Playblast tool has been added to the Animation shelf. It’s really nice to see that small change! It feels like a very logical inclusion to that toolset and will make my life a touch easier. In every previous version of Maya, I’ve added this as a custom button in one of my shelves. Two changes that immediately caught my eye:Ī button for the Hypershade window has been added to the toolbar, grouped with the render tools.
On the surface they can seem like small things, but anything to help keep me focused on animating and not hunting for a tool is awesome. It’s great to see the Maya team making these types of changes. If you’ve been using Maya for a while it may take you a moment to get used to the new layout, but you’ll see how much more logical the layout is now.
In general like things have been grouped together, making finding tools and/or features much more intuitive. The design aesthetic is much cleaner and many menus and shelves have been reorganized, consolidated, and in places renamed. The first thing you’ll notice when opening Maya 2016 is that the interface has undergone a major facelift.
I got my hands dirty with Maya 2016 to check out some of the new features and wanted to share my thoughts with you. So before you get frustrated, remember that Maya is just a piece of software…have fun with it! We’re here to help you along the way.Įfficiency in animation is extremely important to me and Autodesk has taken that idea to heart in their latest of release of Maya 2016. In this post, Justin talks about the newest features in Maya 2016 and how you can use these new toolsets to improve your animation performance and sculpting. Not to mention, he’s also an Animation Mentor alum 🙂 Justin’s creative talent has not only sharpened his animation eye but has also led him to become quite the Maya guru. This blog post is brought to you by our very own Justin! Justin is our talented curriculum director and a long standing member of the Animation Mentor Crew.
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