

The add-on, an expanded version of Maya’s original Bifrost Fluids simulation toolset, provides a node-based visual programming enviroment in which to author multiphysics simulations.Īs well as liquids, it includes solvers for gaseous fluids, granular materials and cloth.īifrost 2.2 for Maya is the second update to the plugin this year, and the most significant since it was released in its present form.īifrost 2.2: control simulations via scalar or vector 3D fields The main change in Maya 2020.4 is Bifrost 2.2 for Maya: the new version of the bundled multiphysics plugin. Maya 2020.4 only: now bundled with version 2.2 of the Bifrost plugin Maya LT, the cut-down edition of the software, gets a smaller update, with version 2020.4 adding the option to snap the current time marker to keys in the Graph Editor, and updating the Substance plugin. It is also now possible to use custom 3D fields to control particle, gaseous fluid or cloth simulations. Most of the new features come inside Bifrost 2.2, a big update to Maya’s multiphysics plugin that broadens it out into a tool for scattering and instancing geometry, and even hair simulation. Autodesk has released Maya 2020.4, the latest version of its 3D modelling and animation software.
