Autodesk: Maya 2018.5 ((free))

Autodesk Maya 2018.5: The Stability Standard

• Point Light: Create a point light to illuminate a scene
• Directional Light: Create a directional light to illuminate a scene
• Render: Render a scene using the selected renderer

3. Navigation and Interface

• You need native Python 3 or full GPU rendering.
• You require Apple’s M1/M2 native support.
• You depend on the latest USD (Universal Scene Description) workflows.

• Viewport responsiveness: fixes addressing slow redraws and GPU-related artifacts on certain drivers.
• Animation editors: corrected display and keyframe-handling bugs in the Graph Editor and Dope Sheet.
• Rigging and constraints: resolved issues causing IK/FK switching glitches and constraint evaluation order problems in complex rigs.
• Alembic and USD workflows: fixes improving export/import robustness for Alembic caches; more stable interchange with DCC tools.
• File I/O reliability: patches reducing incidents of corrupted scene saves and improving autosave behavior.
• MEL/Python API stability: resolved a set of crashes and inconsistent behaviors when running scripted batch jobs or custom plugins.