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Cached Playback

Cached Playback, greatly enhanced in Maya 2020, is a background process which drastically increases the speed of animation playback, enabling you to evaluate iterations of animation right in the viewport, rather than producing multiple playblasts.
Layered dynamics caching separates background processing of dynamics and the core animation within a scene. This way, Maya now stores the images directly in the evaluation cache, allowing for much faster playback.
Smooth Mesh Preview now uses less memory and runs previews on the GPU when possible.
The new Ghosting preview allows you to see the appearance of past and future movements

Animation Bookmarks

Mark, navigate through, and organize specific events in time as well as easily zoom into playback ranges in the Time Slider. Select start and end frames and assign different colors to bookmarks to identify them. Hovering over a bookmark clearly highlights the time it occupies in the Time Slider and displays any notes you've created

Rendering

Arnold 6 is included with Maya 2020 and can now be used for production rendering on both the CPU and GPU. Arnold's intuitive interface makes it easy to toggle between CPU and GPU rendering, maintaining the same settings with a single click. Arnold GPU is based on NVIDIA's OptiX framework and optimized to take advantage of NVIDIA RTX technology

Serious Effects

This latest update adds even more power to the new visual programming environment, including significant performance and stability improvements and over 100 bug fixes driven by user feedback

Viewport Improvements

It is now faster to interact with or select dense geometry or work with large numbers of smaller meshes in the viewport and UV editors, with noticeable performance improvement

Modeling

A new Remesh tool allows you to specify exactly where you need extra detail on a model by redefining the topology of any area on the mesh. Retopologize generates clean, new topology that preserves the original mesh shape while reconstructing the surface topology into evenly-distributed quads. The result is a deformable, production-friendly mesh that can continue moving down the pipeline

Rigging

New matrix-driven transform and operation nodes help reduce node and connection clutter in your scenes. This new workflow allows you to skip the decomposition and composition steps, while also keeping the scale, rotation, and translation channels available for animation

• Cached Playback
• Graph Editor filters
• Render Setup
  
  
• UV editor workflow, look, and feel
• Clump modifier for interactive grooming
• After Effects live link
• Additional MASH nodes
• Motion Graphics
• 3D Animation
  
  
• 3D Modeling
• Dynamics and Effects
• 3D Rendering and Shading
• Pipeline Integration

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