Autodesk Maya 2023

Welcome to Maya 2023! Read on to learn about the new features and updated workflows you'll find in this release. For technical details including What's Fixed, see the Maya 2023 Release Notes.

Maya 2023 focuses on improved usability for both seasoned Maya artists and new users alike. Experience the completely revamped Booleans Tool, the new Blue Pencil Tool, or try some of the other improvements detailed in the links below. You'll also notice an improved user experience with the new Application Home hub, gamiefied tutorials, and a new Search feature that lets you navigate the user interface more efficiently.

• What else is new? - Click any of the cards above for more detailed information on major new features in this release. This release of Maya includes the following additional improvements.
• Pin tabs in the Attribute Editor - The new Pin Tab icon in the Attribute Editor simplifies workflows where multiple selections are required. Click  to keep the selected tab loaded, even when you make another selection in your scene.
• deformerEvaluator improvements - The output from the Mesh information, Selected Nodes Status, and Clusters reports have been improved so that the information is easier to read.
• Color Management - Maya now integrates OpenColorIO version 2.0.1 for color management. This version includes fixes for several bugs in the previous version.

In addition

• If you are using a configuration file that assigns color spaces to families, the families are used to organize the color spaces into submenus in the Maya interface. However, note that the configuration files installed with Maya do not make use of this feature.
• In the Color Management preferences, you can click the drop-down arrow to the right of OCIO Config Path to quickly select the default configuration used for new scenes, the configuration used for legacy scenes, or the most recently used npn-default configuration, in addition to browsing for files.
• The Color Management checkbox has been removed from the Color Chooser. In its place, you can select Data from the Mixing Color Space drop-down menu. When Data is selected, the raw numeric color values are stored and in addition, the view transform is not applied to the swatch or other color controls.
• The new Invert View option for File texture nodes applies the inverse of a view transform to the color values in the texture. This can be useful with image planes used as back plates, for example, because it yields the original colors after the view transform has been applied for display.

When this option is checked, the View option appears and you can select a specific view transform to invert. Normally, this should be the same as the View set in the Color Management preferences.

The Invert View option is available only when using OCIO v2 configuration files, and only when Color Space is set to a space in the Display family. In particular, it cannot be set when using the Maya-legacy configuration for compatibility with scenes created prior to Maya 2022.