Maya 2016 Extension 2

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Maya 2016 Extension 2#390788

By ababak - Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:32 am

- Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:32 am #390788

Some highlights of this release are as follows:
A new render setup system makes working with shot-based overrides, templates, and collections quick and easy.
The new Shape Editor and Pose Editor, plus the many enhancements to the Blend Shape deformer, bring expanded capability to shape authoring, such as letting you sculpt directly on a skinned character.
New motion graphics tools in Maya feature a procedural, node-based workflow to create custom animations using the MASH toolset.
In addition, this release contains many enhancements and updates to symmetry modeling, UV editing, polygon modeling, and animation performance, as well as numerous new Bifrost and XGen features.

Some videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xetf8KqDF5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3sv1W5NIdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZu-zjtd6PQ

It looks like most of the changes should work fine with Maxwell nodes out of the box, right?
Any estimates on when the Maxwell will support Extension 2?

Regards,
Andrey Babak
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Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390791

By limbus - Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:27 pm

- Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:27 pm #390791

It seems that Maya 2016 Ext 2 (or Maya 2016.5) needs newly compiled plugins.

More info can be found here: New API changes coming in Maya 2016 Extension 2

Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390809

By limbus - Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:50 am

- Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:50 am #390809

Any ETA on when a new plugin for Mayas 2016.5 might be ready?

Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390817

By jfrancis - Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:30 am

- Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:30 am #390817

I just "installed" it. Doesn't load, but did I do anything that needs to be undone?

Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390819

By burnin - Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:50 am

- Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:50 am #390819

API compatibility

Maya 2016 Extension 2 is not binary compatible with Maya 2016.

C++ plug-ins that were compiled against Maya 2016 or Maya 2016 Extension 1, including Maya 2016 service pack releases, must be re-compiled against Maya 2016 Extension 2 in order to be recognized by this version of Maya.

In addition, plug-ins compiled against Maya 2016 Extension 2 will either not load or exhibit unpredictable behavior if loaded in Maya 2016, Maya 2016 Extension 1, or any Maya 2016 service pack release.

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Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390820

By will - Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:19 am

- Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:19 am #390820

Crap,I wonder how long this is going to take?

Maxwell Abuser

Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390822

By jfrancis - Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:19 am

- Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:19 am #390822

I've installed Maya 2016.5 and now 2016 has no license, so I'm without Maxwell for a while I guess, unless I can roll back to 2016

Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390836

By will - Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:49 pm

- Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:49 pm #390836

Hopefully in a week or so they will have it fixed to run on 2016.5.

Maxwell Abuser

Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390845

By T0M0 - Mon Apr 25, 2016 2:09 pm

- Mon Apr 25, 2016 2:09 pm #390845

Some info about support for EXT2 ?

Re: Maya 2016 Extension 2#390846

By jfrancis - Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:17 pm

- Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:17 pm #390846

Lynda has a pretty good 3.5 hours on how you use the motion graphics stuff. Sometimes the colors are handled using vertex color. Is that supported in Maxwell? Also some objects come and go over the course of a sequence. I wonder how Maxwell material shader assignment will work with them.