What's New in Maya 2023.3 Update

Welcome to Maya 2023.3 Update.

For technical details, including What's Fixed in this release, see the Maya 2023.3 Update Release Notes. For changes to the 2023.3 Maya devkit, see What's New in the 2023.3 Maya devkit.

You can access the Maya 2023.3 Update from your Autodesk Account.

What's new in 2023.3

USD for Maya 0.20 plug-in

This release provides important stability fixes and feature updates for workflows such as editing Maya data and using display layers with the updated Universal Scene Description (USD) plug-in for Maya.

What's New in Animation

Customer requested updates to Proximity Wrap deformer, Graph Editor, and Time Editor behavior.

Arnold for Maya 5.2.1.1 plug-in

Maya 2023.3 ships with MtoA 5.2.1.1 for Arnold 7.1.3.2 which provides several bug fixes and performance improvements.

What's new in 2023

Animation Performance improvements

This update contains significant animation performance improvements, especially when playing back animation on complex rigs.

Blue Pencil improvements

This update contains updates to the Blue Pencil tool to enhance your drawing experience

New Graph Editor Tangent controls

New Tangent Angle and Weight options have been added to the Graph Editor toolbar.

New Joint draw style

A new draw style, Joint, has been added to the Draw Style menu in the Joint options.

Bifrost 2.5.1.0

Bifrost 2.5.1.0 provides new USD nodes for binding materials and working with collections, as well as other improvements.

Arnold for Maya 5.2.0 plug-in

Maya 2023.2 ships with MtoA 5.2.0, which provides improved volume rendering, improvements to the USD procedural and the Hydra Render Delegate, as well as an improved Arnold viewport experience.

Substance 2.3.0

Maya 2023.2 provides Substance 2.3.0, which includes the ability to enable physical size.

Boolean Updates

New options in the Boolean stack improve usability and performance.

New HumanIK Character template

A comprehensive Character Template adds extra bones and joints.

Improved User Experience

Maya has undergone a number of improvements for first-time and returning users alike. These include a new Application Home hub, Interactive Tutorials, Search, and Viewcube.

Mesh Wireframe Opacity

Alpha channels are now available in the Color Chooser, letting you set the opacity of the wireframe on objects.

Retopology tools for Maya

Updates to retopology tools in Maya enable artists to achieve enhanced results for their meshes.

Deformer updates

New Retargeting and Mirror capabilities, Solidify scaling options, and extra Deformer falloffs have been added to the Maya deformation arsenal.

Additional Component Tag options

New functionality has been added for Component Tags to give you more control over tag membership.

What's New in Modeling Performance

Additional performance improvements and tool updates speed up common modeling workflows and produce more predictable results.

New Sweep Mesh option

A new option has been added to the Sweep Mesh tool to let you choose whether to use single creator node or multiple creator nodes per curve.

Create VR for Maya

Create VR for Maya is an immersive conceptual design tool that empowers artists and designers to start their creative process directly in 3D.

Operating System, Python, and PyMEL Updates

Maya 2023 has added support for Rocky Linux, and has a new minimum required version of macOS. Maya 2023 now uses Python 3 exclusively.

What's New in the Maya 2023 devkit

The Maya 2023 devkit includes a new minimum CMake version, new Blue Pencil APIs and commands, and several other changes.