It’s not a big feature, but it lets you save some time, as these needed more steps in previous versions. With this feature you can easily create extrusions along a curve, and this can be used for cables, pipes, or similar geometries. For example, you can add a Lattice deformer, and then use the Component Tags in the Input Attributes field, to tell the Lattice deformer to only deform the components in that tag.Ī very simple, but useful feature is the Sweep Mesh. However, you can also use these Component Tags to limit deformations. Component Tags are basically selection groups, where you can add components of your object (vertices, faces, etc.) to groups. The software now includes something called Component Tags. However, you will notice playing back animations with dynamics becomes pretty difficult, due to the needed calculations, so it’s better to turn it on. You can turn off Dynamics Caching by unchecking the “Cache dynamics” checkbox in the Evaluation Toolkit, in case your computer doesn’t have enough RAM for caching. Now, the dynamics cache is displayed as a pink line, so both caches are separate. If you remember, Maya included animation caching, and the cache was shown as a blue line on top of the timeline. You can define a range of ghosting, set the opacity of ghosted figures, color, object types and ghosting type.Īlso in the animation playback field, there’s a new Dynamics Caching, where it is cached in a different pass (and displayed through a different status on the timeline).

It’s been in the software for a few years, but this editor makes it easier to tweak the ghosting. Animation Ghosting is not new in Maya, though.

This is useful in case you want to see what comes before or after your current keyframe, so you can detect problems or see the overall spacing of the animation. Maya 2022 has a new Ghosting Editor to help you visualize the animation over time, from a single frame.

If you have been keeping with the news, you know Maya 2022 was released around a couple of weeks ago, and this time I will be taking a look at the new release.

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