Maya Plugins are extensions for the 3d animation software 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
Stroika	8.5/2008	Fields and Emitters
Blastcode	7.0/2009	Demolition (Nurbs)
Brainbugz	4/2008	Behavioral/Flocking
PullDownIt	8.0/2011	Dynamics & Fracture

Fluid

Plugin	compatibility	description
Glu3d	7/8.5	Fluid in realtime.
RealFlow	7/8.5/2008	Fluid & Simulation.

Import/Export

Plugin	compatibility	description
BodyStudio	4 - 7	Import plugin for Poser characters.
ActorX	6.5-2008	Export to .ase format, used with Unreal Ed and Unreal Ed for UT3
Collada	7-2008	Import/Export plugin for the Collada format, used with Unreal Ed and Unreal Ed for UT3 and most other 3D modelling software
.smd Exporter	4-2008	Import/ Export plugin for the .smd format, used for Source Engine model compiling.
Rapid Export for Maya	6.5-2010 (32 & 64-bit)	Workflow tool to automate the export process to just a single click.
SketchUp Import for Maya	2009-2011 (32 & 64-bit)	Import plugin for SkechUp models.
SolidWorks Import for Maya	2009-2011 (32 & 64-bit)	Import plugin for SolidWorks models..

Modelling

Plugin	compatibility	description
natFX	7	3D plant modelling plugin.
T-Splines	7/8/8.5	T-Spline plugin.
Xfrog	6/6.5/7	Plant modelling plugin.
CurvedSpace	2008	CurvedSpace plugin.
Vertex Chameleon	6.5 - 2010 (32 & 64-bit)	The ultimate vertex colour toolset for Autodesk Maya.

Texturing

Plugin	compatibility	description
UVAutoRatio	6.5 - 2010 (32 & 64-bit)	Automatically unify UV to polygon surface area ratio across multiple objects
RoadKill	6.5 - 2008 (32 & 64-bit)	Automatically unwrap UV's of complex meshes into a "pelt" for easy texture mapping
Unwrella	8.5 - 2010 (32 & 64-bit)	Automatically unwraps UVs of meshes while preserving pixel proportions and surface stretch

Rendering

Plugin	compatibility	description
HDRI-Studio lighting system	8.0/8.5/2008/2009	Lighting environments for 3D-models.
RenderMan for Maya	6/6.5/7/8.5/2008/2009	Photo-realistic Rendered by Pixar.
3Delight for Maya	8.0/8.5/2008/2009/2010	Fast, Renderman compliant renderer by DNA Research.
V-Ray for Maya	2008-2011	A very fast and popular raytracing render engine.
Holomatix Rendition	7/8/8.5/2008/2009	Realtime, Progressive, mental ray-compatible raytracing Renderer
Turtle	7/8.5/2008	Raytracing renderer.
Maxwell Render	7/8.5/2008/2009/2010	The Light Simulator. Render engine. Multilight. Materials. Photorealistic...
Gelato/Sorbetto	7/8.5 2008	Nvidia Free GPU and CPU user render tool. Photorealistic Raytracing...