
New Relax, Tweak and soft selections with the Quad Draw Tool make retopology much easier, and there is also a new interactive edge extend tool. You can now retopologize high resolution meshes much more effectively in Maya. Much work has gone into creating better performance and streamlining workflows. Some new enhancements have been issued into the modeling toolset in Maya 2015. The Bifrost liquid sims can also interact with animating emissions, collisions or influencer objects, allowing for great flexibility with animations and simulations together. All of the results from Bifrost can be viewed interactively in viewport 2.0, or rendered with the mental ray renderer, or mesh the liquid simulations to render in other renderers. The Naiad technology will allow artists to create photorealistic simulation and rendering of liquids right within Maya. Because the weighting assignment calculations are separate from the distance calculations, its possible to modify weights interactively at pose time without the need for additional processing.Ĭertainly the integration of Bifrost into Maya 2015 as a procedural effects platform is a huge deal. This produces much smoother weights really quickly – at interactive rates. This is based on the distance between each voxel lying on a bone and all exterior voxels. Geometric Voxel Binding first voxelizes the input geometry, and uses that voxelization to calculate the binding weights. What makes Geodesic Voxel Binding unique is that it can handle really complex meshes easily.

The Geometric Voxel Binding is a new skinning method that can bind geometry to joint skeletons. These are the same OpenSubdiv libraries that were open-sourced by Pixar studios. OpenSubdiv is a huge addition to Maya allowing Maya to take advantage of parallel GPU and CPU processing on Subdivision surfaces. New to Maya 2015 is the integration of the OpenSubdiv Libraries.
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