Waiting for Maya 2017 - Maya 2016 Extension 2

It seems Autodesk is late to announcing the annual version of Maya. I have the idea what kind of improvements will be in the new release. They have already featured as Maya Extension 2 (Extension 1 was published around the last summer). Or it means there won't be Maya 2017? Or they are just waiting to 2017 to announce Maya 2017?


Motion Graphics Toolset

Deep Adaptive Fluid Simulation



Enhanced Animation Performance

Shape Authoring Workflow and Character Rigging

Enhanced Symmetry Modelling

Render Setup

Maya Bug - Viewport 2.0 - Gimbal Axis

Another viewport 2.0 bug. If we rotating an item in hierarchy, a joint for example, we will see that the axes are rotating in a strange way. Since we rotated in one direction we can't rotate by grabbing the manipulator's circles (representing the x, y, z axes) any more because they actually have a different orientation. If we switch back to legacy viewport we will see the correct orientations.

In viewport 2.0 looks like this:

And the correct legacy viewport shows this:

 I tend to call legacy viewport as legal viewport recently because it seems viewport 2.0 is corrupted (sometimes).