List of Maya plugins

Maya Plugins are extensions for the 3D animation software Autodesk Maya. There are plugins for many different areas such as modeling, animation, and rendering. Some of them also interact with external applications (for instance renderers, game engines, or other software packages).

Dynamics

Plugin Compatibility Description
Miarmy 1.18/2013 PhysX character dynamics & RBD emitter.
Dynamica 8/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012 Active, passive, and kinematic rigid bodies.
Pulldownit 2012/2013/2014/2015 dynamics and fracture of solid objects.

Fluid

Plugin Compatibility Description
Glu3d 7/8.5 Fluid in real time.
RealFlow 7/8.5/2008 Fluid and simulation.

Import/Export

Plugin Compatibility Description
Collada 7-2008 Import/export plugin for the Collada format.
OpenGEX 2013 Export plugin for the Open Game Engine Exchange format.
Sketchfab Uploader 2012-2015 Upload models to Sketchfab, a web platform to publish and embed interactive 3D files.

Modeling

Plugin Compatibility Description
Xfrog 2008-2015 Robust Plant/Organic modeling and animation plugin, and 3000 prebuilt procedural and editable plants (XfrogPlants).
LBrush/Lipservice 2008-2014 A very powerful Sculpting, texture painting, pose deformers for blendshapes tool.
Shave and a Haircut 8.0 2008-2015 Hair, fur, grass generation and control, widely accepted through the industry.

Rendering

Plugin Compatibility Description
RenderMan for Maya 6/6.5/7/8.5/2008-2016 Photo-realistic rendering by Pixar.
3Delight for Maya 8.0/8.5/2008-2012 Renderman compliant renderer by DNA Research.
Maxwell Render for Maya 2011-2016 A unbiased raytracing render engine.
V-Ray for Maya 2008–2016 A raytracing render engine.
Holomatix Rendition 7/8/8.5/2008/2009 Real-time, progressive, mental ray-compatible raytracing Renderer
FurryBall 2010/2011/2012/2013/2014 Real-time GPU renderer.
Octane Render 2012/2013/2014/2015/2016 Real-time GPU-based (exclusively Nvidia CUDA), unbiased, physically-based renderer.
Arnold Renderer 2013/2014/2015/2016
Redshift 3d Render for Maya -2016 A biased GPU raytracing render engine.
Crepo Sound Renderer 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/2008 A spatialized audio rendering plugin for Maya to simulate 3D-positional audio

Crowd simulation

Plugin Compatibility Description
Golaem Crowd 2011/2012/2013 (Windows/Linux: 32 & 64-bit) Simulates complex and controllable characters.
Miarmy 2012/2013 (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X: 64-bit) Human language/logic decision system controlled AI, PhysX SDK tools, all renderers support.

VR

Plugin Compatibility Description
http://marui-plugin.com 2014/2015/2016 (Windows 7-10 64-bit) Modeling and Animation in VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift support (mouse and 3D controllers), access to Maya functionality (shelf, windows) within VR, screen recording
VR-Plugin.com 2014/2015/2016 (Windows 7-10 64-bit) Enables VR with the Oculus Rift inside the Viewport 2.0 via DX11/OpenGL with animation record option.
VR-Plugin http://moculus.io/ Windows 7 & best for Windows >=8 Enables Maya artists to se their work in stereoscopic VR with real time capabilities | Helps to make camera animations for previs, movies and cinematics | Great tool for lighting and shadow
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