https://numerion-software.com/solutions/products/carbon-for-maya

• Carbon for Maya is a high-performance physics and cloth simulation plugin designed to bring advanced soft-body, cloth, and hybrid effects into Maya workflows. Developed by Numerion Software, Carbon aims to bridge the gap between realism and usability—offering production-level simulation quality while integrating cleanly into Maya’s environment.  At its heart, Carbon supports cloth simulation, with features built for complex garments, nets, sails, ropes, and textile behavior. Its collision engine is robust—handling interactions between cloth and characters, self-collision, layered cloth collisions, rigid bodies (buttons, props), and more. The system also allows you to define which elements should or should not collide, giving you control over performance vs. accuracy trade-offs. (Version notes and feature listings reference this)

• Carbon is optimized for performance. It is multithreaded, tuned to leverage workstation hardware, and designed to scale as scene complexity grows. Because of this, it is adopted in production pipelines for its balance of fidelity and speed. (Documentation notes production use)
• Compatibility is broad: you can install Carbon for multiple versions of Maya—2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, and beyond—on the same machine. It supports Windows and Linux platforms. (Numerion documentation confirms support for multiple Maya versions)
• One aspect of Carbon that often gets attention is its edge collision mode. In this mode, particular edges of a cloth mesh can be used selectively for collisions, which is especially useful for representing things like nets, hair, chainmail, or rope-like cloth with minimal overhead. (Edge collision is highlighted in plugin demos)
• Carbon is not limited solely to cloth: its architecture is intended to be a unified physics framework capable of simulating both soft and rigid bodies, motion constraints, joints, and hybrid behaviors—making it useful beyond costumes into props, soft tissues, and other deformables. (Product positioning describes this ambition)