Animation

Pose Library

• Scene independent pose library
• Thumbnail view
• Blend poses
• Matching Name and Selection Filters

Character Solver

• Character Definition Tag allows rig-independent definition of character components
• Automatic rig extraction based on name templates
• Custom Character Definition Presets
• Character Solver transfers motion between rigs based on character definitions, regardless of hierarchy or joint rotations
• Extensive preset library of high-quality motion capture presets

Delta Mush

• Delta Mush smoothing of joint-based animation
• Tag-based control of smoothing parameters

Character Object – Toon Rig and Face Rig

• Toon Rig in Character Object offers easy-to-use rig supporting scaling and bendy limbs
• Face Rig in Character Object allows users to easily create a joint-based facial rig

Workflow Enhancements

• Attribute Manager Filtering
  • Animated Attributes
  • Keyframe Selection
  • Animatable Attributes
  • XPresso Driver / Driven
  • Overridden in current take
• Keyframing Changes
  • Auto-Key Workflow
  • Paste in Place
  • Copy / Paste Ease Curve
  • Record All Animated / Record Hierarchy Commands
  • Delete Keys for all selected objects Command
  • Animation Context Menu on HUD
• Preview / Project Time Changes
  • Preserve Project Time with Merge and X-Ref / Allow Keyframes outside the project time
  • Increase Preview Time with Project
  • In / Out Commands to define preview range
  • Set Range to Markers
  • Go to Previous / Next Marker Range
• Timeline Changes
  • Timeline Filtering
  • Auto-Frame F-Curve
  • Show Pos/Scale/Rot F-Curve Commands
  • Improvements to defaults and object / track display behavior
• Marker Enhancements
  • Create Markers based on range / BMP
  • Marker HUD
  • Markers created with random color
• Deformer Enhancements
  • Auto-orient deformers based on geometry
  • Easily adjust deformer orientation to align with object axes
  • Viewport Enhancements including indicators of action and direction
  • UX Enhancements including sliders for strength / angle
• Exchange Enhancements
  • FBX option to export marker ranges as takes
  • FBX option to export only bound joints
• Other Enhancements
  • Set Pos / Reset Pose commands in weight tag
  • Invert Vertex Map checkbox

 

UV Enhancements

• for perpetual users, all the great enhancements in S22
• Display and manipulate UVs of multiple selected objects (for shared texture workflows)
  • Rasterized and Geometric Packing of multiple objects into a single UV space
• Grid in Texture UV Editor
• Snap UV elements and UV Transform Tool to Vertex, Edge, Mid-Point, Grid and Pixel
• Align Island based on edge selection
• Straighten point / edge selection
• Rectangularize polygon selection
• Path Selection within UV Editor
• Grow / Shrink Selection within UV Editor
• Quantization Palette
• Display UV Distortion in 3D View

 

Magic Bullet Looks

• Look applied in real-time to the viewport
• Look applied to final rendering as a post effect
• Option allowing for saving the unprocessed rendering result as a multipass
• Optical Touch Looks Preset library designed to make 3D renders look great

 

Viewport

• Improved screen space reflections
• Optimized display of node-based geometry
• Light Source Optimization and General Performance Enhancements
• Removed Redraw Limit

 

Scene Nodes (Preview)

High-performance node-based object system, available as a technical preview.

Operator Nodes

Distribution Nodes

• Linear, Linear Transformed
• Radial, Spiral
• Grid, Grid Offset (Honeycomb)
• Vertex, Edge, Polygon Center
• Mandelbrot, Mandelbulb
• Custom Distribution Group

Effector / Field Nodes

Geometry Nodes

• Get / Set Geometry and Topology
• Point, Edge, Polygon Info
• 3D Primitives
• Selection Nodes
• Bounding Box
• Geometry Clone
• Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep
• Extrude, Inset, Bevel, Subdivide
• Optimize, Connect, Chamfer, Align Normals, Reverse Normals, Delete, Melt
• Remove Ngons, Remove Non Manifold, Triangulate, Retriangulate, Untriangulate

Legacy Import

• Legacy Object Import
• Sample Legacy Light
• Vertex Map Tag Import

Materials

• Material assignment
• Material parameterization

Flow Control Nodes

• Loop Carried Value
• Memory
• Range

Array Nodes

Node Editor

• General UI Enhancements for Scene and Material Nodes
• Node filtering
• Node Detail Levels
• Comments

Remesh Generator

Exchange

USD Support

• Import / Export Models, Cameras, Lights in usd, usda, usdc
• Export usdz

OBJ Performance and Feature Enhancements

• Import/export Support for PBR material definition used by Adobe Dimensions and other applications
• OBJ Sequence Export
• OBJ Sequence Import
• Vertex Color Import / Export (Z-Brush / Meshlab)
• Point Cloud Import
• Z-Brush Spline Import
• Flip UVs
• Unicode Support
• More Presets: 3ds max, Adobe Dimension, Blender, Maya, ZBrush, Trapcode

FBX (listed in Animation Workflow)

• Export Takes from Timeline Markers
• Export Bound Joints only

 

Python 3

• Update from Python 2.7.14 to Python 3.7.7
• Increased performance for Python expressions, scripts and plugins
• Encrypt Python plugins via the command line

 

Moves by Maxon

• Import and use Facial and Body Capture data from Moves iOS app (fully integrated)

 

General Workflow Enhancements

• Display alpha channel in Picture Viewer as a checker grid
• Insert Caret showing drag destination within Object Manager
• Instances can be made editable
• Updated Intel Open Image Denoiser to 1.2.1 / improved performance and better results
• Viewport Selection Tools now use Intel Embree technology for better performance and accuracy

 

Customer Journey

• Maxon One
• Subscription Management page