• Animation – Enhancements to Trax™, the software's popular non-linear animation editor has a new user interface, editing abilities and support for expressions and constraints. Other additions such as Motion Retargeting and Motion Redirection give animators unparalleled power and flexibility.
  
  
• Maya Hair – Maya Unlimited now includes a new hair and dynamic curves feature set to allow artists to quickly and easily create long hair that reacts naturally to dynamic forces and can be constrained into hairstyles. These robust native and integrated tools make creating and working with long hair fast and easy.
  
  
• Tools for advanced characters – Improvements in Maya Cloth streamline the process of creating character clothing; Maya Fur can now be rendered in mental ray® for Maya - taking advantage of the advanced lighting effects that mental ray is famous for.

• Performance improvements – Maya 6 has been optimized throughout. For example: the Smooth Proxy is up to 18 times faster, and Subdivision Surface performance is up to 8 times faster.



• Scene management tools – New file referencing, scene segmentation and shader organization features make it easier to manage large data sets, and is particularly useful for film and game production facilities.
  
  
• Technology that drives the evolution of 3D – The complexity of 3D projects continues to grow. Maya allows you to overcome the challenges of working with dense geometry and animation data and their associated shading networks.
  

• Adobe® Photoshop® – New integration with the industry's favorite texture and matte painting creation tool results in a more streamlined workflow to make your job easier.
  
  
• Web browser in a Maya panel - Create and view interactive Web pages that can contain MEL scripts in the form of MEL URLs – an easy way to extend the Maya user interface or manage assets and scene data.
  
  
• Support for new file formats, DDS and PNG –Using the DDS file format is crucial if you're a game developer working with Direct X; the PNG format is the standard for game developers creating titles for the PlayStation® 2.
  

• Unparalleled effects – Improvements in the area of dynamics, including the new ability to apply deformers to particles, give you more control over particle effects.



• Significant advances in modeling – Maya 6 contains many enhancements in the area of modeling to make you more productive: the new Soft Modification tool combines selection with manipulation enabling artists to move, scale and rotate a selection with customizable curve-based falloff.



• Paint Effects on polygons – The ever-popular, artist-friendly Maya Paint Effects can now be used on polygon meshes.
  
  
• Continued integration of rendering technologies - Seamless mental ray integration and interactive high-quality rendering in the viewport for real-time previews.
  
  
• API, MEL and Devkit – Maya 6 gives Maya tool developers access to more features and toolsets than ever before. The Maya API provides a number of major new classes including increased exposure of polygon components and further access to Maya software's manipulators.

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