Finally in a spot where it's good enough that I can start working on my own groom project with it. Smooth collision, instancing, fur shader improvements, crazy new wrap style groom transfer, nifty lil reference viewer for matching up reference photos with the model, and a ton more!

Again, this is a work in progress, so expect things to change and improve as I get feedback and work on my own project.

getgroomlab.com

Runs as a .NET plug-in inside Autodesk Maya 2025.

Doom's software framebuffer is uploaded as a GPU texture and drawn as a screen-space quad through Viewport 2.0's low-level draw API. Keys and mouse are polled straight from Win32. Engine is ManagedDoom, a C# port.

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Been working on this for a bit. The plugin is a GPU based soft body simulator.
In this case I have applied it in two ways.

First a node takes the input neck chain and constructs a lattice which is uses to simulate a dynamic joint chain. In this example I'm rotating one of the input joints of the neck in live playback.

The input joints define the rest shape, which, with the right geometry and material properties allow the input joints to animate the output joints with plausible physics as the neck reaction to the torque and inertia of the head.

The second layer is a full body soft body simulation so simulate the skin and to a limited extent deeper tissue, mostly through volume conservation.

It lets you create visual dividers directly in the Outliner using custom colors, icons and labels, so larger scenes are a bit easier to organize and navigate.

The video shows a quick overview of what it can do.

I also made a more in-depth YouTube video where I go through the tool and how to use it.

Full walkthrough: https://youtu.be/uBctU-a_9JI

Download COO for FREE: in the YouTube video description. (Reddit does not allow Gumroad links)

Would love to hear what other Maya users think, especially if there’s anything you’d add or change.

Always found creating realistic upholstery and seams in Maya frustratingly slow, so I built an interactive stitch pen. Snaps to surface, handles bezier curves live, lets you dial scale/depth, and bakes out clean quad geometry in one click.

Curious what you all think, would this be useful to have released?

Interior mapping is common in Unreal/Unity, but there was almost nothing for Maya's viewport — so I made one!

Still a huuuuge work in progress. But if you wanna help me test it out you can try it out for free: getgroomlab.com

Verified install works for Maya 2022. Build was successful for 2023+ but I don't have access to them to verify, so things could definitely break. The app and blender plugin at still early in development so they aren't as performant as Maya.

Hey all!

I apologize for taking so long to give an update on this project. It has certainly been a crazy past few months. However, I am getting close to finishing all of the functionality I want in a 1.0 release of this rendering plugin. If people are interested, I am creating a discord server where I can share more details about a full feature list and start getting feedback. I am also planning to do a closed alpha in the next week or two in order to start nailing down bugs. I hope you all are well and I am excited to finally share this with everyone!

Discord link: https://discord.gg/f8zR3dkM

-Mirthful

I built QuickAttr. Select something, hit Alt+Q (or whatever key you like), and a small panel pops up right where your mouse is

Built a small Maya tool called Crosshair for quickly rigging FPS hands.

Nothing crazy or overcomplicated, just a simple way to get a clean FPS hand rig set up without manually placing and orienting every joint.

Made it because I wanted something quick and straightforward, so figured I’d share it with the community. Import your mesh - place the joint guides - Generate Rig - skin - animate.

Crosshair handles the rig setup for you, with manual skinning adjustments if needed. It also includes built-in Unity and Unreal export presets, so you can select your animation range and export when you're done.

Just showcasing it for now and seeing what people think. If there’s enough interest, I’ll make it available for free. Would love to hear what you guys think.

Flair is a stylized rendering plugin for Maya that I have been developing mainly as a solo-developer for a while now :).

This minor new version brings support for Maya 2027, fixes a regression when rendering shadows of materials with displacement, restores auto-conversion of Standard Surface materials, brings back the footer buttons of the Bulk Attribute tool, and improves overall robustness.

You can download it for free and use it with a limited resolution, or you can become a patreon and support me with a beer each month ;).

P.S. I'm also bringing Flair to Unreal Engine now and making it completely modular (you can combine all effects together to make your own style)!

How it works:

Built directly into Maya's Quad Draw, qdSnap gives you clean, accurate component snapping, the only feature missing every 3d modeler wanted. Choose between vertex-only, edge-only, or combined mode depending on what you're working on. Default key is "V", like the native vertex snapping, but you can customize it with your own hotkey if you prefer. Freeze system locks down the geometry you don't want to smooth or move, while you keep reshaping everything else.

Out September 25, free for Maya 2022 through 2026, Windows only.

Do you want early access? Drop a comment with "qdSnap" and open your DMs. I'll get the plugin to you before launch.

GroomLab (temp name) is something I have been wanting to make myself after trying out Yeti way back in the day. I wanted something stupid simple where the user doesn't feel constrained by the ux of Maya. Make hair systems fun again!

Features:
Amazing custom strand interpolation.
Realtime keyable Nodes
Feathers
Groom to Cards
Unreal / Unity Export
Groom blending
Guide / Vertex / Texture painting
And a ton more.

If you have any name suggestions, let me know! Was thinking a raccoon could be a fun mascot.

I reworked the system to be completely software agnostic. All the maya plugin now is a thin wrapper on top of the GroomLab core. This means it can get ported to any other software, or even its own standalone package!

In this work in progress I show:

GPU Acceleration (some things are more than 50x faster than xgen)
Feather progress
Standalone Proof of Concept

Google GNM Head is now open source and a Blender addon has already been released. Anyone interested in integrating GNM Head into Autodesk Maya?

I have created this plugin bcz i work on AR project mostly and it's annoying for me that naya doesn't support GLTF GLB. So i just made this thought this will help others.

Around a month ago I asked for some feedback on my plugin for visualising animation layers. A few kind folks here offered some pointers which I've been implementing this past month, along with some bug fixes and UX improvements.

Stoked to move out of Early Access and release v1.0, so yea, thanks r/Maya!

Feel free to take it for a spin at layerseer.com, and as always feedback welcome, cheers!

\ Nubian Rig by Emilio Serrano / Harvey Newman*

I got fed up of trying to figure out which animation layer I was needing to edit, so I built a plugin (LayerSeer) that draws animation layer contributions as a live motion trail in the viewport.

It’s been years in the making at this point, and I’ve only shared it with a handful of people so far. I’d love to get some honest feedback from folks I don’t know.

It’s pretty niche, but I find it helpful for quickly figuring out where a pop or odd arc is coming from.

It's a paid tool but there is a free 30 day trial (no CC required) so feel free to run it through its paces.

Cheers!

I just got the Quadremesher Plugin and it gives me this error every Time I try to use it on the Face. Does anyone know what the issue could be?

Let's see how easily I transform a MetaHuman mesh into this big guy right inside Maya! What do you think of this tool?

Light Target from Reimagine FX lets Maya artists aim supported Arnold and Redshift lights using target locators. Move the target to change where the light points.

For one light, create a target at the origin or place it on a mesh. For a group, link selected lights to a shared target or give each light its own target. Selection, visibility, locking and unlinking are available in the same panel.

The carousel shows the single-light and multi-light interfaces. The opening poster is promotional artwork; the following slides contain actual plugin screenshots. Light Target controls direction, not the renderer or the light’s shading settings.

Details, screenshots and installation requirements: https://reimaginefx.com/light-target/

Developer disclosure: posted by Reimagine FX.

Hey everyone,

I'm a Technical Artist with over 10 years of experience building production tools and pipeline automation for Maya.

I'm looking to build a plugin that solves a real problem people run into every day rather than making something just because I think it's a good idea.

So I wanted to ask the community:

• What's the most frustrating or repetitive thing you still have to do in Maya?
• Is there a workflow you wish Autodesk would improve?
• Do you wish there was a tool that doesn't currently exist?

It doesn't have to be a huge feature and I'd love to hear what's slowing you down or what you think is missing from Maya.

Thanks!