Autodesk Maya LT 2019.1

Autodesk Maya LT 2019.1

With several UV improvements and exciting new modeling tool updates, Autodesk® Maya LT® 2018 helps game developers work faster than ever before.

With several UV improvements and exciting new modeling tool updates, Autodesk® Maya LT® 2018 helps game developers work faster than ever before. Modeling, animation, workflows have seen significant improvements that not only help artists work quicker but also help make character creation more enjoyable

Professional Modeling tools

Maya LT users can leverage the familiar and powerful Maya modeling toolset to help rapidly create and edit 3D characters, props, and environments. Modeling has never been easier thanks to the recently integrated NEX custom toolset and efficient
automatic poly-reduction tools that makes creating assets for various screen resolutions a breeze.

Materials and shaders

Maya LT includes ShaderFX, a real-time, node-based editor that enables the rapid creation of gpu accelerated, programmable shaders without requiring manual coding. Shaders can easily be exported as HLSL, GLSL, or CgFX shader programs, then imported into any game engine that supports Microsoft DirectX 11 or OpenGL.

Animation tools

Bring your game characters, props and environments to life with a variety of animation tools based on Autodesk Maya and Autodesk HumanIK inverse kinematic software. Create keyframe animations and editable motion trails/trajectories to fine-tune motion animation directly in the viewport for maximum efficiency.

Streamlined workflows

Utilizing the industry standard FBX file format, Maya LT offers efficient workflows with most major gaming engines including Unity, Unreal and CryEngine. The Microsoft DX11 enabled Viewport 2.0 ensures highly accurate art previews which help minimize round tripping and iteration times.

Web Site: https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya-lt/overview

What’s New in Autodesk Maya LT 2019.1

Animation:

• Incorrect initialization of complex attribute structure causes crash on file open
• Invisibility Evaluator state does not always update
• Crash when baking key animation
• Butterworth filter undo is slow with large datasets
• Vertex and UV manipulation breaks on meshes with keys
• Interactive Bind Skin Tool: unable to shrink, move, or rotate the capsule
• Playback frame rate is slower than realtime if no other application than Maya is running
• NURBs evaluation crash with scenes containing animated surface modifiers
• Modifying deformer set confuses the connections
• Graph Editor: Retime tool cannot undo and leads to a crash
• Graph Editor: Euler filter is not processing sibling curves correctly
• Parallel Evaluation : Maya crashes when rendering frame 1 but not frame 20
• Select Playbast/Options crashes using Black Magic drivers
• Image plane performance is slow on Mac OS X
• Cycle warning when editing vertices on a blend shape target
• Crash when selecting IK Control
• Using weightBlended skinning zeros all normals on mesh
• Cannot type in values for IK handle in Channel Box / Attribute Editor
• Maya graph editor hangs animating cameras
• Crash saving a file that has a HIK XML file using id 0
• Joint orientations not evaluating properly
• Butterworth/Key Reducer filter : Enabling “Preserve Keys by Tangent” when “Preview” is on, causes a crash
• Incorrect Squash and Stretch behavior in DG Mode
• Keying NURBS with Vis Connections Freezes Application
• Joint rotate pivot does not move
• Crash creating proxy attributes
• Crash deleting nodes from simple rig
• Missing dependency propagation during graph construction causes crash during playback or scrubbing
• Transforming multiple selected controls connected to a character set does not work

Foundation:

• Creating a set a second time duplicates the first set in the Outliner
• Missing sets in outliner when creating 10 sets (or 2 quick select sets)
• Incorrect Module path set with autoLoader.mll plugins
• Entering a backslash in the plugin manager search window causes it to become blank
• Creating node from PyMel fails after first instance
• Some python commands no longer autoconvert its parameters to strings
• Custom nodes (such as Mash waiter node) do not show in Outliner unless Searched
• Walk Tool Broken, Error: Line 1.47: “$walkToolMessage” is an undeclared variable.
• “File Save As” does not save to correct location (no longer defaults to the project location scenes directory, rather to the last location that was open)
• importTimeRange “override” is not working
• VRay Sets missing (like displacement) in the Outliner
• A newly created character set does not appear in the Outliner
• referenceQuery: “Cannot find the associated namespace” after renaming reference namespace
• Memory corruption and crash when the garbage collector invoked from a thread cleans up widgets
• Dictionary Attributes not being stored as expected
• Blend shape targets lost when importing FBX
• Crash when calling exit() in mayapy without standalone.uninitialize()
• Crashing when importing .ABC files with extra attributes added

Modeling:

• Mirror not working properly in Z axis
• Maya crashes opening scene where polyPinUV history was previously deleted
• Maya crashes when using 3D Paint Tool on NURBS
• polyPlatonic, PolyDisc, polySuperShape, and PolyGear unavailable in batch mode
• Select > Inverse for NURBS CVs clears the selection
• Lag when selecting multiple large meshes while UV Editor is open
• Long pause when selecting a large number of small meshes while the UV Editor is open
• When replicating children of LOD_Group with inputConnections set to True, grandchild nodes are not duplicated
• art3dPaintCtx exportfilesave fails to export attribute map
• Boolean operations create invalid geometry causing Maya to crash
• Mirror Offset does not work
• Maya does not recognize polydisc node in prompt mode
• Crash while deleting Components on instanced Objects (with display of border edges on)
• Poly Mirror not working if “Cut geometry” is on and “Offset” is 0

Rendering:

• Light editor state becomes corrupt if referenced lights are deleted in the referenced file
• Maya: Crash on import of Maya scene with legacy render layers enabled

UI:

• Save As path in File Dialog is not the path of the file opened anymore
• UI : field colors of nonkeyable attributes are hard to read
• Unable to redock toolbox(windows) without resizing. (Please see Notes section below for more details on this fix)
• MayaQWidgetDockableMixin the close event is never triggered when closing the window.
• Accessing freed memory when exiting mayapy from static initializers and destructors
• Workspaces: “Reset Current Workspace” does not restore widgets to their original size
• Outliner lags with large number of elements (faces) expanded

Viewport:

• Selection of objects causes continuous memory leak
• MHWRender::MIndexBuffer: Linux: wrong number reported by “ogs gpu” when using custom buffers
• Wireframe not visible for geometry override
• Viewport 2.0 display of stereo cameraSet is incorrect
• MTextureManager always creates mipmaps
• Geometry corruption with UV Editor in Shaded Mode
• Viewport 2.0: nCloth: Connection Density Range curve from constraint node not updating
• castShadows attribute is not evaluated properly if it’s connected to another attribute
• SkinDelta Deformation Incorrect Behavior when Referenced
• Fixed broken draw and selection when plugin shape has 1 value for MVertexBufferDescriptor::offset()
• Performance issue updateRenderItems called every frame
• Display glitch whilst modeling in the viewport
• Maya 2018 UV Editor is slow when many other meshes are in the scene
• Some UVs are only visible when you zoom out

XGen:

• IGS LinearWire Simulation behavior incorrect
• Utility tab of XGen editor in Maya 2019 is blank

Rendering:

• If you are using Maya 2019.1 Update with MtoA 3.2.0, you may experience a crash if you hide or unhide a light while Arnold RenderView is running.
• Workaround: Render with MtoA 3.2.1 instead. To obtain the installer,

UI

• Unable to redock toolbox(windows) without resizing. MAYA97252
• Workaround: Set the environment variable MAYA_WORKSPACES_ALWAYS_SHOW_TAB to 1 so that the tab remains present and can be used to select, dock and redock.