Look for the
tag throughout the Maya Help to find information on features that are new or updated in Extension 2.
Some highlights of this release are as follows:
- A new render setup system makes working with shot-based overrides, templates, and collections quick and easy.
- The new Shape Editor and Pose Editor, plus the many enhancements to the Blend Shape deformer, bring expanded capability to shape authoring, such as letting you sculpt directly on a skinned character.
- New motion graphics tools in Maya feature a procedural, node-based workflow to create custom animations using the MASH toolset.
In addition, this release contains many enhancements and updates to symmetry modeling, UV editing, polygon modeling, and animation performance, as well as numerous new Bifrost and XGen features.