Maya LT

3D modeling and animation tool for indie and mobile game development.

3D Modeling, UVs, and Textures

• 3D modeling tools - Sophisticated 3D modeling tools help you create realistic-looking characters, props, and environments.
• Built-in sculpting tools - Brush-based sculpting tools let artists perform high-level sculpting on their models without having to export to a different tool.
• Revamped UV editor - The UV toolkit offers artist-friendly tools and functionality for quicker UV creation and editing.
• Shaders and materials - Create high-quality materials with intuitive tools, or work with Allegorithmic Substance materials directly in the software.
• LOD tools for game model efficiency - Optimize content for mobile devices with polygon reduction, data cleanup, blind data tagging, and level-of-detail tools.
• Physically based shader materials - Use ShaderFX to create high-quality physically based shader materials within Maya LT.
• Lighting and texture baking - Simulate realistic game lighting. Use global illumination tools to bake lighting data into texture maps or vertex maps.
• Modeling improvements - Quad draw, multicut, bevel, and symmetry enhancements make modeling more efficient.

3D Animation and Rigging

• 3D animation tools - Animate and rig characters and objects for your game.
• Rigging tools - Build a control structure for your characters with automated rigging tools.
• Time editor - This nondestructive, clip-based nonlinear editor features an intuitive and familiar user interface for working with scene objects.
• Shape editor - The shape authoring tools give you more control to create, tweak, and correct animations in a detailed way.
• Graph editor - Edit animation keys using a powerful, intuitive editor.
• HumanIK-based Quick Rig tool - Automatically generate and place HumanIK rigs.
• Geodesic voxel binding - Bind modeled geometry to skeletons faster, often with just a few clicks.
• Bake Deformer tool - Bake complex rigs, containing multiple layers of skinning and deformers, down to a single skin cluster.

Indie Game Workflows

• Game engine workflows - Export directly to Unity and Unreal with custom export tools. Or, use the game exporter to get your 3D content into your engine of choice.
• Get Stingray - Access the Stingray engine with a Maya LT subscription. Available for Windows only.
• MEL scripting - Simplify and customize your workflow with MEL scripting.
• Send to Unity or Unreal - Maya LT includes direct export options for Unity and Unreal.
• Game Exporter tool - Customize and save export settings for model and animation data to keep 3D assets consistent for use in-engine.
• Workspaces - Quickly switch between customized UI layouts or task-specific UI presets through a simple drop-down menu.
• Send to Mudbox - Export geometry to Mudbox digital painting and sculpting software to add detail to the model. Texture and detail maps can be sent back to the model in Maya LT.
• Creative Market integration - Search, browse, and buy 3D content on the Creative Market directly from Maya LT.
• Viewport improvements - The viewport now supports displacement mapping and offers improved transparency, better shadow and shading support, and more.