List of Maya plugins explained
Maya Plugins are extensions for the 3D animation software Autodesk Maya. There are plugins for many different areas such as modeling, animation, and rendering. Some of them also interact with external applications (for instance renderers, game engines, or other software packages).
Crowd simulation
| Plugin | Compatibility | Description |
|---|
| 2011-2018 (Windows/Linux: 32 & 64-bit) | Simulates complex and controllable characters. |
| 2012/2013 (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X: 64-bit) | Human language/logic decision system controlled AI, PhysX SDK tools, all renderers support. | |
Dynamics
| Plugin | Compatibility | Description |
|---|
| 1.18/2016 | PhysX character dynamics & RBD emitter. | |
Fluid
| Plugin | Compatibility | Description |
|---|
| Glu3d | 7/8.5 | Fluid in real time. |
| 7/8.5/2008 | Fluid and simulation. | |
Import/Export
Modeling
| Plugin | Compatibility | Description |
|---|
| 2008-2015 | Robust Plant/Organic modeling and animation plugin, and 3000 prebuilt procedural and editable plants (XfrogPlants). | |
Rendering
| Plugin | Compatibility | Description |
|---|
| 2018–2020 | Photo-realistic rendering by Pixar. |
| 3Delight for Maya | 2016–2018 | Renderman compliant renderer by DNA Research. |
| Maxwell Render for Maya | 2011–2020 | A unbiased raytracing render engine. |
| V-Ray for Maya | 2016–2020 | A raytracing render engine. |
| 2011–2018 | Real-time GPU renderer. |
| 2017–2020 | Real-time GPU-based (exclusively Nvidia CUDA), unbiased, physically based renderer. |
| 2017–2022 | An advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer. |
| Maya Cg Plug-in | 4.5 or above | advanced hardware rendering and the Nvidia Cg high level shading language | |
