Description
Bonus Tools 2019/2020 is a free collection of useful Maya scripts and plug-ins. After installing Bonus Tools, an additional pull-down menu will be added to the end of the main Maya menu. This menu provides easy access to a variety of tools and utilities for daily use. Maya Bonus Tools has been organized to mimic the layout of the standard Maya menu sets. Each sub-menu contains a number of related tools. Each of these can be torn off and floated just like standard Maya menus.
Note: Due to the close timing of the releases, this update to BonusTools is supported for both Maya 2019 and Maya 2020. This means that new features added in this update will be available in both versions of Maya. However, if you have an older version of BonusTools installed for Maya 2019 you will need to uninstall it in order to use the updated tools from this version.
New Tools in BonusTools 2019/2020
Create -> Locator at Custom Pivot Axis
Modify -> Proportional Placement Tool
Modify -> Stack / Align Objects
Modify -> Offset Transforms
Modify -> Randomize Transforms (Basic)
Display -> Enable Popup Help
Modeling -> Flatten Component (Basic)
Rigging -> Create Joint at Custom Pivot Axis
Rigging -> Create Circle Control
Rigging -> Performance Utilities -> Profile One Frame
Rendering -> Clean up Mental Ray Nodes
Updated Tools in BonusTools 2019/2020
Create -> Mesh Locator
Modify -> Bounding Box Scale
Display -> Poly Volume
Window -> Attribute Collection
Window -> LayoutTools Browser
Window -> Scene Annotation
Modeling -> Curve to Ribbon Mesh
Modeling -> Curve to Tube Mesh
Modeling -> Flatten Component (Advanced)
UV Editing -> Auto Unwrap UVs Tool
UV Editing -> Align UV Shells
Rigging -> Nudge Vertex Weights
Rendering -> Assign Materials for Each Selected
Rendering -> Add Object Transparency Attribute
Note: In order to support the app from shared network drives the MAYA_PACKAGE_PATH environment variable needs to be set to point to the directory that contains PackageContents.xml.
Crashes every time I change icon size in the layout window (tried on different computers). Images displayed in icons are not scaled so appear cropped.
Works fine in 2017, but I also want it to work in 2016, which is also installed on my Mac, but the "universal installer" provided ignores it, and does not install bonus tools to the older installed version of Maya.
some commands like "copy pivot from last selected" are missing in maya 2018. Any workaround?
no new feature for bonus tools 2018 !!!! why ???
When is the release of "Maya2018 Bonus Tools" scheduled?
Is it slowing down?. This maya2018 hasn't come out yet. When will it be out?
Please we need the 2018 version of this plugin! I think the bonus tools should be part of each Maya releases.
Any idea when bonus tools 2018 coming?
yes
Maya 2018 Bonus tools ?? pleasssseeeeeee ... hurry... I checking everyday...
No bonus tools for Maya 2018 yet? When please? Thank you :D