You can learn more about Bifrost in this video: Īnother really nice feature, for those interested in animation, is the Time Slider Bookmarks. Now, if Autodesk brought something like Face Robot into Maya, I'd be happy. Some people are comparing it to Softimage ICE, although internally it is not the same as ICE (meaning that Autodesk didn't just “port ICE to Maya”). Bifrost is a node-based environment used to create effects and custom behaviors. Maya 2020 can auto-snap keyframes to whole frames, preventing this issue.Īnother thing that has made it to Maya is Bifrost. That causes some keyframes to fall on non-whole frames (for example frame 25.57).

When you are animating, you find yourself moving keys around, or even scaling groups of keys to retime portions of your animation. While playing back at 200fps feels cool, it doesn't really help when you are working at 24 or 30 fps depending on what your target medium is.

When you use this, I'd advice you to set your Playback Speed to “Real-time” so you can see the animation at real speed.

For example, you can see this animation with rigid bodies and nCloth playing at around 200fps when Cached Playback is on, compared to the 5fps when it's off.

The feature has now implemented caching dynamics playback, allowing you to play animations with dynamics a lot faster.

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