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
Dynamics
Fluid
Import/Export
Modeling
Rendering
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RenderMan for Maya , , 2018–2020 , , Photo-realistic rendering by
Pixar.
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3Delight
3Delight, also known as 3DelightNSI, is 3D computer graphics software that runs on Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is developed by Illumination Research. It is both a photorealistic and NPR path tracing offline renderer based on its NSI ...
for Maya , , 2016–2018 , , Renderman compliant renderer by DNA Research.
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Maxwell Render for Maya , , 2011–2020 , , A unbiased raytracing render engine.
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V-Ray
V-Ray is a biased computer-generated imagery rendering software application developed by Bulgarian software company Chaos . V-Ray is a commercial plug-in for third-party 3D computer graphics software applications and is used for visualizatio ...
for Maya , , 2016–2020 , , A raytracing render engine.
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FurryBall , , 2011–2018 , , Real-time GPU renderer.
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Octane Render
Octane Render is an unbiased rendering application with real-time capability developed by graphics software company OTOY Inc. It was created by Terrence Vergauwen of the New Zealand based startup company Refractive Software LTD before being sol ...
, , 2017–2020 , , Real-time GPU-based (exclusively
Nvidia
Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...
CUDA
CUDA (or Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general purpose processing, an approach ca ...
), unbiased, physically based renderer.
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Arnold Renderer , , 2017–2022 , , An advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer.
Maya plugins
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3D graphics software
Computer-aided design software
Animation software
IRIX software