The USD Team at Autodesk is excited to share news of new releases of our USD plugins for Maya and 3ds Max. Among the new features is a new Asset Resolver in both products that allows you to use tokens and environment variables in asset paths; it also allows setting search paths directly within the UI. A key feature in Maya USD is viewing layer content directly in the layer editor. In Max, a key feature is the ability to create new USD stages in the scene without requiring an existing USD file on disk. These and more features can be found in the latest installers in GitHub or in the latest versions of Max/Maya.
We hope you enjoy these releases and look forward to hearing your feedback. As always, please report any issues you find.