Your Maya assets. Ready to find, place and share.
Maya Bundle Exchange is a free Asset Browser and portable asset library for Maya 2025 and 2026. Bring existing MA, MB and FBX files into your library, or save objects and scenes with their dependencies. Organize visual libraries and variants, drag assets into Maya as imports or references, and share self-contained .mbx files.
MBX opens straight into the Asset Browser. Find work visually, choose a variant and bring it into Maya. Each asset is backed by a portable package that keeps the scene, its collected resources and its preview together.
Turn older Maya scenes and FBX collections into a visual MBX library. Convert selected files or a folder in one reviewed batch, with one asset per source file. Originals stay untouched and existing output names are skipped.
Keep reusable props, characters and scene elements close at hand. Search by name or tag, check the preview and bring an asset back into a new project without searching old scene folders.
Save individual objects from a larger scene. Browse the collection, select a variant and drag it into the viewport. Choose Import for independent scene content or Reference for a Maya reference.
Group related versions under one asset family. Compare their previews, switch between named variants and update the one you are working on without losing track of the alternatives.
Point the browser at a shared folder or NAS library. Use categories and colored tags to keep it readable, then attach a note and a Needs attention marker to the variant that needs another pass.
Export an .mbx file or copy an incoming package into your library. The asset carries its preview, metadata and collected dependencies; MBX restores packaged resources when loading it into Maya.
Store an entire scene as a visual, searchable asset. Inspect its contents and verify package integrity before reuse, or open and unpack it into a Maya project through Advanced Package Settings.
Turn existing Maya scenes and FBX collections into reusable MBX assets. Drop one or several files onto the Asset Browser, or choose Add Asset → Migrate Asset Files… to scan a source folder and its subfolders.
MA/MB references are embedded into the converted scene. Review missing textures and FBX material or animation differences in the migration report.
The Asset Browser is where you work every day. MBX also gives you a closer look at what an asset contains and makes its preview useful outside Maya.
View dependency inspector ↗
Open Advanced Package Settings for the Scene Explorer, missing-resource checks and a portability report. Inspect references, textures, caches and other detected files, then verify package integrity before a handoff.
View Windows Explorer preview ↗
With Windows integration enabled, .mbx files display their embedded thumbnails in Explorer. The registered Explorer property handler can also expose package metadata, as shown here. Open a package in the browser or add a copy to your library.
Yes. Maya Bundle Exchange is a free AO Studio Tools flagship. Sign in to your free account in AO.Hub and install it. The Asset Browser and packaging workflow do not require a paid plan.
Yes. Choose Add Selection as Asset for selected objects, or Add Current Scene as Asset for the whole scene. Add a preview and metadata, and save it as a new asset or a variant of an existing family.
MBX extracts the package into a managed local cache and restores resource paths before loading it into Maya. Import adds scene content; Reference creates a Maya reference to that extracted asset revision. To collect an opened MBX scene into a project folder, use Unpack Scene in Advanced Package Settings.
The package carries the asset, its collected dependencies, preview and asset metadata, including tags and variant information. Team review notes and tag colors are stored alongside packages in the shared library folder. Favorites and recent history are local to each artist.
No. MBX collects detected external resources and reports dependency issues. The receiving workstation still needs a compatible Maya installation and the plugins or renderers used by the asset. Windows Explorer previews apply to .mbx packages with embedded previews.
MBX is an AO Studio Tools flagship, included with your free account. Download AO.Hub, sign in and install Maya Bundle Exchange. Open the Asset Browser and save your first asset.
