Feature:
- Completely new, end-to-end, massively multi-threaded architecture which delivers up to 100x* faster performance in authoring, reading, drawing, manipulating, playback and rendering time-to-first-pixel.
- Fully compliant with USD v20.08.
- Non-destructive authoring workflow for layout, lookdev, layering and composition.
- Unified rendering workflow: easily work with multiple rendering engines while keeping exactly the same artist workflow.
- Ability to easily author USD hierarchies for assets and compositions, straight from the Maya outliner.
- Write USD assets, compositions and overrides with support for USD proxies & guides.
- Read USD and Alembic files, whether static or animated, as a single file or as a sequence via USD clips, with ability to easily generate USD clips.
- Complete read/write support of USD point instancing. Maya duplicate as instance, instancer, particle instancer and MASH. Houdini packed/point instancing and duplicates.
- Ability to explore and override USD assets with a pleasing, logical and extremely fast UI.
- Selectively override transforms with full animation support, including parents and hierarchical inheritance.
- Complete workflow for authoring hierarchical and attribute USD Variants, working both from Maya data or from USD data on Compounds.
- Selectively override materials, generic & render attributes, visibility and variant selection with complete hierarchical inherit- ance.
- Complete support for authoring Maya-typed and USD-typed custom attributes on either Maya data or USD data.
- Ability to write skeleton data to USD, as well as read it. Unique ability yo "bind" skeleton animation to skeleton roots in a fully USD way. This opens up for interesting inter-op workflows with Vicon Shogun.
- Ability to write Maya blends shapes to USD.
- Ability to encode Stingray shading network as USD Preview Materials.
- Realtime high-FPS playback and manipulation streamed to the viewport with OpenGL (Win/Linux) and Metal (macOS), using multiple visualization modes.
- Interactive path tracing streamed to the viewport with 3DelightNSI. This works with unlimited threads and does not require a separate installation of 3Delight.
- Procedural and parallelized rendering streamed with minimal TTFP to Arnold, 3DelightNSI (including 3DelightNSI Cloud), Redshift, Renderman and VRay.
- Linear, velocity, acceleration, curved and deformation 3D motion blur.
- Inter-op between Autodesk® Maya® and other USD-ready DCC applications, in particular with SideFX® Houdini Solaris.
- Generate 3D USDZ assets for Augmented Reality (AR) in iOS and macOS with full lookdev and animation support.
- Pipeline automation with the new, easy to use, Multiverse Python API.
- Full support for USD Asset resolution: file-based, ArDefaultResolver or custom resolver.
- MUSE, the Multiverse Usd Standalone Editor application, which allows for USD files visualization, playback, non-destructive multi-parameter editing, authoring of overrides and compositions via references and much more to come.