Autodesk Maya 2013 3D animation software or download helps you create and maintain the modern, open pipelines you need to address today’s challenging 3D animation, visual effects, game development, and post production projects.

Viewport 2.0 Enhancements

Evaluate your work in a higher fidelity interactive environment in order to make better creative decisions. Viewport 2.0 now offers a more functionally complete high-performance, high-quality viewport, featuring:

• High-quality depth sorting.
• Support for image planes and animation ghosting.
• The ability to use the same hardware rendering technology to batch render larger-than-screen-size frames, producing high-quality animatics and previsualizations in less time.

Maya nHair

Create stunning, highly realistic hair and other curve-based dynamics with the new Maya^® nHair module for the Maya^® Nucleus unified simulation framework.

• Create complex simulations with multiple dynamic entities all working together, with the ability to interact bidirectionally with both Maya^® nCloth and Maya^® nParticles.
• Use a common system of fields, forces, and constraints for all Nucleus modules.

Heat Map Skinning

Enjoy a more accurate initial binding of geometry to skeletons in Maya 2013, thanks to a new Heat Map Skinning method that:

• Better assigns skin to the intended bone as opposed to an adjacent, but unrelated, bone
• Requires less manual refinement

Alembic Caching

Read and write the Alembic open source computer graphics interchange framework format, co-developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. and Lucasfilm Ltd.

• Distill complex animated and simulated data into application-independent baked geometry.
• Help reduce the overhead and loss of interactivity associated with transferring fully editable scene data between disciplines.

New Node Editor

Create, edit, and debug node networks more easily with the new Node Editor.

• Choose from three levels of detail.
• Rewire nodes in a more intuitive environment than the Connection Editor with drag-and-drop connection editing.
• Distinguish different data types at a glance through color coding.

Trax Clip Matching

• Visualize how Trax clips overlap in Maya 2013 to build complete character performances from individual animations. Clip Ghosts enable you to view the start and end frames of clips as skeletal wireframes in the 3D view.
• Match clips with the help of these visual cues, or automatically, using a choice of options for translation and rotation.

Bullet Physics*

Simulate both soft and rigid bodies in a single system, with the high-performance, open source AMD Bullet Physics engine.

• Create highly realistic simulations of cloth, rope, deformable objects, and ragdoll skeletons.
• Take advantage of discrete and continuous 3D collision detection.

*Available on Microsoft^® Windows^® (64-bit only), Linux^®, and Mac OS^® X operating systems; OpenCL acceleration on Windows and Linux offers additional performance benefits on those platforms.

ATOM Animation Transfer

Transfer animation between characters via the new ATOM (Animation Transfer Object Model) offline file format, in order to repurpose existing animation data as new characters are created. ATOM natively supports keyframes, constraints, animation layers, and Set Driven Keys.

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Autodesk Maya 2013 Software Requirements

The 32-bit version of Autodesk Maya 2013 software is supported by any of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 7 Professional operating system (SP1)
• Microsoft^® Windows^® XP Professional operating system (SP3)

The 64-bit version of Maya 2013 software is supported by any of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional operating system (SP1)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2)
• Apple^® Mac OS^® X 10.7.x operating system
• Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^® 6.0 WS operating system
• Fedora^™ 14 operating system

Maya 2013 32-bit and 64-bit software requires the following supplemental software:

• Microsoft^® Internet Explorer^® 7 internet browser or higher
• Apple^® Safari^® web browser
• Mozilla^® Firefox^® web browser

Autodesk Maya 2013 Hardware Requirements

At a minimum, the 32-bit version of Maya 2013 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Windows: Intel^® Pentium^® 4, AMD Athlon^™ processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
• 2 GB RAM
• 10 GB free hard drive space
• Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL^® graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive

At a minimum, the 64-bit version of Maya 2013 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
• Macintosh^® computer: Macintosh computer with a Intel-based 64 bit processor
• 4 GB RAM
• 10 GB free hard drive space
• Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
• DVD-ROM drive

For the latest list of certified hardware, including graphics cards, to run Maya 2013, refer to the Maya 2013 certification chart.

Note: Maya 2013 is also capable of running on other configurations such as boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online certification charts.

Autodesk reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document.

Autodesk is not responsible for errors or failures of Autodesk software arising from the installation of updates, extensions or new releases issued by third party hardware or software vendors for the certified software or hardware identified in this document (or for any other third party software or hardware that you may use in connection with Autodesk products).