Maya - Fatal Error on Load

sculptn

//Warning: Cycle on 'polyNormal12.output' may not evaluate as expected. (Use 'cycleCheck -e off' to disable this warning.) //

updateRendererUI;

I looked at this thread http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94649


Tried importing it turning off Execute script nodes on load. Going to try some of the other ideas in that thread. Just wondered if that error message was significant also the file is 260 MB in size could that be part of it ?

Noors

Brings back so much good memories...

So, corrupted mesh.

Try to import it.
Read this
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56540

Use a previous version.
Save as .ma
Increment

sculptn

Thats great thank you will give them all a go yeah tried the import and save as .ma no luck but will try some of the other ideas. Thanks though

r4ptur3

If you have a .MA, open it in a text editor (260 megs might crash out the editor) and strip out all the data except the mesh. You'll lose a lot of work, but at least you will have the mesh You can also try to manually debug the file to see what's wrong with it. Maybe there are 259 megs of corrupted data you can easily strip out.

BARDLER

r4ptur3 wrote: »

If you have a .MA, open it in a text editor (260 megs might crash out the editor) and strip out all the data except the mesh. You'll lose a lot of work, but at least you will have the mesh You can also try to manually debug the file to see what's wrong with it. Maybe there are 259 megs of corrupted data you can easily strip out.

There are also scripts out there that can recover corrupted .ma files as well. You will have to do some searching on google for one though.

sculptn

Cool thanks r4ptur3 and Bardler will give that a try thanks

ENODMI

If you don't feel like editing it, try importing the file instead of opening it. I've ran into this countless times and this usually works