New Solidify deformer The new Solidify deformer lets you create areas of geometry that appear more solid on deformed geometry, which lets you define rigid parts of a character's clothes, such as buttons or a belt buckle.

Cached Playback improvements Cached Playback has been updated to provide support for dynamics nodes and the Time Editor.

Rokoko Motion Library Plug-in The Rokoko plug-in allows you to simply drag and drop professionally made mocap assets into your scenes from the comfort of your own home.

Security Preferences You can now flag specific commands or plugin locations to be blocked when Maya loads them in the Preferences window.

Sweep Mesh Create a mesh from a simple curve shape using the new Sweep Mesh feature.

Graph Editor Improvements The Graph Editor has had the following updates and improvements.Bifrost 2.2.1.0 plug-in Maya 2022 provides Bifrost 2.2.1.0 which includes new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes.Python 3 Maya on Windows and Linux now starts in Python 3 mode by default.Component Tags for deformers Component Tags are new node attributes that change the transformation and deformation of geometry.Animation Ghosting The Ghosting Editor lets you create images that echo the animation, letting you visualize movement and position of animated objects over time.USD Plug-in for Maya Universal Scene Description (USD) support in Maya is now available: letting artists work seamlessly with USD in conjunction with Maya workflows.

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