Autodesk Maya LT Changelog

What's new in Autodesk Maya LT 2016

• General:
• MAYA-51672: Selection/viewport performance slows down after installing Maya LT 2015 SP3
• MAYA-45719: Maya LT won't launch after changing Time Slider "Key Ticks" to Smart
• MAYA-43742: userSetup.mel not called on startup of Maya LT
• MAYA-50083: Send to Unreal sometimes reports that Unreal is not installed
• MAYA-44729: Game Exporter: Using native OS file dialog sets improper path
• MAYA-44677: Game Exporter: FBXReview error when launching for first time on Mac
• MAYA-41719: FBX Export with triangulation results in mixed up polygon-material mapping
• MAYA-23497: getAttr -t returns wrong value after save
• MAYA-23521: Deformer connections not clearing when deleted
• MAYA-27084: listAnimatable returns incorrect attribute names
• MAYA-34909: Crash when deleting group of nodes
• MAYA-35794: Maya crashes on Export Selected with imagePlane
• MAYA-37493: Playblast cannot be canceled by pressing Esc
• MAYA-38390: Maya crashes often with Apple Magic mouse
• MAYA-29065: file -exportSelected -preview; return should contain only valid node paths
• MAYA-33874: Autosave should only occur when Maya is idle and no mouse buttons are pressed
• MAYA-38653: Scene name is changed even with failed save attempt
• MAYA-38715: Fix slow FBX export performance
• Animation:
• MAYA-42785: Blend Shape: Targets disappear after save and reopen
• MAYA-3252: Keying: Right-click in channel box keys attributes which are not keyable
• MAYA-23629: Keying: Changed the channel box "Key All" option for a "Key All Keyable" option
• MAYA-29019: Joint: Moving joints with negative scale in object space causes opposite direction translate
• MAYA-35912: IK: Crash switching from vertex to object view with IK spline handle selected
• MAYA-36359: Joint: Fixed an issue with auto-connecting "inverseScale" attribute of joints when they get parented
• MAYA-36639: Joint: Constrainted joint does not move along world axis
• MAYA-38749: Turntable not working when no model panel is selected
• MAYA-39722: Graph Editor: File will not save after changing keys in Graph Editor
• MAYA-42819: Graph Editor: Cycle with offset animation curve differs from original animation curve
• MAYA-43214: FBX: Fixed a crash on import with "Update Animation" option selected
• MAYA-43943: Deformer: Painting weights on a nonlinear deformer causes vertices to pop
• MAYA-44429: Constraint: Constraints with negative scaled hierarchies should work without changing rotation
• MAYA-45273: Fixed an issue with bakeResults -preserveOutsideKeys option being slow
• MAYA-45305: Playblast: Fixed an error when rendering to network drive
• MAYA-46550: Motion Trail: Motion Trail not always rendering correctly in Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-46663: MotionTrail: Refresh needed when changing timing display mode in Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-47663: Constraint: Constraints fail when parent of both objects has negative scale
• MAYA-11615: HIK: When baking to Control rig, all curves are Independent Euler
• MAYA-21552: HIK: Timeline edits are ignoring keying groups for non HIK nodes
• MAYA-48060: HIK: hikInputSourceUtils.mel error when setting character input
• Modeling:
• MAYA-10790: Improved the Texture Editor center square manipulator so that it works better when scaling UVs
• MAYA-11270: Maya crashes during mesh cleanup for faces with zero UV area
• MAYA-14381: Operations on meshes with partial UV mapping may be unstable
• MAYA-16144: Black vertex colour may not be saved with scene file correctly
• MAYA-23798: Onscreen menus for extrusion not working (German region and language format)
• MAYA-24623: Insert Edge Loop in Multi-Cut and Quad Draw does not always work correctly
• MAYA-25579: getAttr on mesh node "normals" attribute causes crash
• MAYA-26003: If a shape node is named the same as a default camera name (top, side, persp, front) changing to that camera view via the Hotbox creates a new camera
• MAYA-28164: Flip button in UV Texture Editor isn't working
• MAYA-31834: Quad Draw: Relax Border Vertices - Shift+MMB drag in area of mesh which doesn't include border vertices will crash
• MAYA-31851: Modeling Toolkit: the rotate tool manipulator doesn't work properly when enable Soft Selection
• MAYA-33650: Quad Draw fill hole function can sometimes create polygons with inverted normals
• MAYA-33753: Multi-Cut Slice Tool results are not always correct
• MAYA-34671: Files that contain meshes with their tangent space coordinate system set to left-handed don’t re-load properly back into Maya
• MAYA-35385: UV texture Editor, Image Range is not working correctly
• MAYA-35420: Cannot move or scale certain images in UV Texture Editor after enabling "Use Image ratio"
• MAYA-35789: In some cases material assignments are missing after bevel
• MAYA-35915: In some cases Bevel creates edge loops which are convex instead of concentric concave
• MAYA-35982: Maya may crash with OpenSubdiv when a UV Set named “map11” is present
• MAYA-36197: polySplit behaviour change in 2014 can lead to crash when opening legacy files
• MAYA-36405: Boolean operation creates an extra color set (ColorRGBA)
• MAYA-36769: Transfer vertex colour attributes when invalid vertex colour data is present may cause crash
• MAYA-37176: Black vertex colour may not be saved correctly in Maya binary files
• MAYA-37803: Poly planar projection causes a large mesh points to "jump" to the side
• MAYA-38041: Selection by component type will select occluded objects
• MAYA-38134: Boolean operation performed on meshes with no material assignment causes crash
• MAYA-38528: Active plane handles in move and scale manipulators are not remembered when selection changes
• MAYA-38742: Multicut crash with mesh containing nested (child) meshes
• MAYA-40860: Paint Color on Vertex tool used across multiple meshes leads to crash
• MAYA-41255: Crash when extruding faces in smooth mesh preview
• MAYA-41305: When in Viewport 2.0, turning on checkered tiles or UV distortion display in the UV Texture Editor will cause crash if a custom material is assigned
• MAYA-41928: ATI R9 200 crashes when using Quad Draw Tool
• MAYA-42114: Manipulator line size preference affects all lines in UV Editor and viewport
• MAYA-42404: Selection Constraints: Shell should refer to the isolated objects, as opposed to its UV Shells
• MAYA-42899: OpenSubdiv problem with UV borders via shared/unshared UVs
• MAYA-43422: Soft selection move operation ignores lock status of lattice points
• MAYA-43743: Target Weld doesn’t work correctly when the Working Units preference is not set to centimeter
• MAYA-43900: shrinkwrap 'shape preservation' fails if target shape is away from origin
• MAYA-44083: Combine Skinning option does not work correctly
• MAYA-44097: Modeling Toolkit: Snap to point does not work as intended
• MAYA-44215: The sticky key functionality of the target weld tool appears to be broken.
• MAYA-44236: Instanced NURBS surface don't display with surface precision set to High
• MAYA-44752: quad Draw poly overlay gets inverted when extending
• MAYA-45553: On LMB release, Bevel's Offset as Fraction does not take account of the current linear unit
• MAYA-46383: UV Checker only works on UV1
• MAYA-46757: Maya crashes after several Combine and Separate operations
• MAYA-47513: Scale Tool: Discreet Relative mode has no effect when linear unit is not "centimeters"
• MAYA-48585: Edit Pivot crashes after using Append To Polygon
• MAYA-49252: Transfer Attributes: Transferring UV data in Component space is significantly slower in Maya 2015 than in Maya 2014
• MAYA-49755: Vertex selection can sometimes be unpredictable
• Rendering:
• MAYA-49124: Error when importing texture files with localized file names
• MAYA-44837: Normal maps interpreted as bump maps in Turtle texture baking
• MAYA-27533: dx11Shader VDM with floating point tif is clamped (but exr works)
• MAYA-29242: Viewport 2.0 with orthographic camera shows bad depth sorting
• MAYA-29531: ShaderFX not showing texture in texture editor
• MAYA-30877: Joint drawing is slower now compared to Maya 2014
• MAYA-34403: Viewport 2.0 shows incorrect active trim edges on NURBS with trimmed islands
• MAYA-34679: Enable error logging for cgfx/dx compile errors
• MAYA-34870: Noise shader fails on Mac in Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-34989: (Consolidation) Flat/smooth shade selected item makes polygon disappear
• MAYA-35172: Viewport 2.0: Poly Count HUD includes hidden poly component totals
• MAYA-35185: Viewport 2.0: unloading/deleting nodes can lead to crash
• MAYA-35711: Viewport 2.0 Settings UI doesn't reset on File > New: appears out of sync
• MAYA-36035: Viewport 2.0: Alpha doesn't work in many TIFF files on OSX
• MAYA-36255: Production file in textured mode takes 10-15 seconds to select objects (multiple materials per object)
• MAYA-36467: Graph Editor slow in Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-36827: Joint local axis issue
• MAYA-36889: Viewport 2.0 SSAO looks darker than it should with negatively scaled objects and flipped normals
• MAYA-37472: Viewport 2.0 shadows are pixelated at grazing angles
• MAYA-37649: Viewport 2.0: Scrubbing timeline is VERY slow with very simple scene
• MAYA-39269: Unable to assign shaders to large set of objects: "Error while parsing arguments"
• MAYA-39310: Viewport 2.0 Rotate Gimbal Manipulator not displaying correctly
• MAYA-39360: Viewport 2.0 Transparency issues with inverted alpha and "Alpha is luminance"
• MAYA-39596: Viewport 2.0: geometry is drawn offset from correct location
• MAYA-40126: As an animator using Viewport 2.0, I expect a similar frame rate when visualising an animation with a render override
• MAYA-40425: Ramp texture is slow to update on changes
• MAYA-40911: Large objects that do not cast shadows interfere with other shadow casting in Viewport 2.0 in Maya 2015
• MAYA-41859: Some external image viewer might fail to open specified image file on Windows
• MAYA-41890: Viewport 2.0 light distance limit
• MAYA-41923: Local Rotation Axis display disappears when zooming in
• MAYA-42225: No thumbnail for DDS(DXT5) images in the Hypershade and Attribute Editor in Maya 2015
• MAYA-42246: Simple hardware shader changes lighting color
• MAYA-43049: Viewport 2.0 MaxChangeBuffer: curve shape does not get redrawn as the object is moved with the Move tool manipulator
• MAYA-44821: Viewport 2.0 not using Custom Color Settings index when Maya is launched, although correctly saved in preferences
• MAYA-45439: Viewport 2.0: Mesh flickers with transparency and non Depth Peeling transparency algorithms
• MAYA-45879: Viewport 2.0: after a new material assignment, objects continue to be rendered with the default material
• MAYA-46036: 2d bumping without texture causes incorrect render in Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-46218: Always use latest GL version when running in Core Profile device Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-47892: Saving file with large textures and animation in Viewport 2.0 does Viewport 2.0 processing after it saves with no user benefit
• MAYA-47978: Viewport 2.0/Skinning: Paint Weights tool causes temporary vertex corruption
• MAYA-48103: Tiff texture with alpha channel doesn't display correctly in Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-48105: Object Transparency Sorting should be grayed out when using Viewport 2.0
• MAYA-48239: Viewport 2.0: Crash with .psd that has alpha channel
• MAYA-48303: Viewport 2.0: Camera projection distorts with objects further than 5000 units away
• MAYA-48706: Playing animation with lots of Joints causes runs out of memory at Viewport 2.0 and DX11 mode
• MAYA-49123: Viewport 2.0: Selection Handles don't draw last
• MAYA-49311: Viewport 2.0: Fixed a display issue with FK/IK switch
• MAYA-49720: IK movement is wrong when moving locators in specific character rig
• Color Management:
• MAYA-14354: The gamma parameter of the viewport options affects the image plane in Viewport 2.0 (Color Management should be selective)
• MAYA-48633: Texture flashes for second when selecting DX11 shader textures in the UV Texture Editor
• Scripting:
• MAYA-5057: There is no command/flag to remove an item from the treeView.
• MAYA-32477: FindType command does not work
• MAYA-43835: In the processing of Matrix, Maya crashes when using nested Proc.
• MAYA-45647: Fix unescaped backslashes in MEL match() calls.
• MAYA-46287: Multiplying unassigned matrix and float array variables can cause a crash
• User Interface:
• MAYA-1940: Hotkeys listed (such as Ctrl+d) in a Maya drop-down menu do not update custom hotkey mappings until Maya has been restarted
• MAYA-37143: Keyable custom attribute with some specific short name cannot show up in the Channel Box
• MAYA-38835: Attribute Editor: AEfileTemplate errors when opening file texture browser with local paths
• MAYA-18450: Script Editor: Quick Help text doesn't fit into its display size
• MAYA-25332: Scene file does not reload with saved layout
• MAYA-34306: Using marking menus causes minimized windows to become "un-minimized"
• MAYA-36876: Alphabetic layer sort reverts to chronological order with new layer & reopen
• MAYA-39143: Key release hotkeys lost during manipulator drag
• MAYA-40582: Setting "Display ToolClips" auto-activate after doing Playback
• MAYA-48316: Sub-menu divider label doesn't show unless the menu is torn off
• MAYA-43319: Outliner: Hotkeys disabled when dragging nodes in with sort order of Alphabetical Within Type
• MAYA-43773: Outliner: Expansion doesn't work correctly in a second split view
• MAYA-18625: Node Editor: Some nodes on Hypergraph (Hierarchy mode) with Freeform Layout & Schematic Orientation disappear
• MAYA-32704: Node Editor causes Set Key/Undo process time issue
• MAYA-35571: Node Editor: output port is creating 6001 menu items
• MAYA-37641: Drag and drop files to Node Editor no longer works
• MAYA-40842: Node Editor/Hypergraph: Maya is unresponsive while the scene graph gets processed