What causes this nasty Maya 2016 Ext 2 multicut bug?

daniellooartist

I upgraded to Maya 2016. The first time I used it was on another person's machine. In the first 5 minutes i triggered a noticeable error. Whenever I try to move an object on a live surface by left clicking on the gizmo, a marking menu shows up. I figured "hmm, maybe the prefs folder on this machine has some weird something or other inside that's poisoning this particular instance of Maya.

I get home, install a brand new copy of my own, and the same thing happens in the first 20 minutes. I normally resolve this by droping the move tool, switching to object mode and going back into the multicut tool. I normally wouldn't mind, but this versionis NEW and it is freaking CONSTANT. Half the time doing what I just mentioned won't work and I'm forced to restart Maya all together. What was once a casual nuisanceis has become an insipid problem. I know it's not a problem exclusive to my machine because it happened in the first 5 minutes on another machine. I can't possibly be the only one with this problem. Is there any way you guys have found to avoid it?

throttlekitty

I'm having trouble picturing this, can you outline your steps? I don't understand how you're getting a marking menu by clicking on the (move?) gizmo, or where multi-cut or component mode fits in here.

daniellooartist

This is me left clicking in negative space. The error occurred after i turned off the live object tool and attempted to move a vert with the move tool on the x axis. It's like disabling the make object live option makes ALL left clicking activate a random marking menu. But seriously, has no one else encountered this?


When trying to move UVs

Bartalon

Does this also happen with the Scale or Rotate tools active?

daniellooartist

yes. anything that requires a left click. It's almost as if it somehow remaps the left click itself to activate some menu.

EDIT: Thanks to Bartalon this command should solve it. Turns out for some weird reason Maya won't recognize me taking my finger off the W key. I don't know why Maya does this in the first place but It works.

TranslateToolWithSnapMarkingMenuPopDown;

throttlekitty

Can't say I've seen that, no. I do recall seeing tiny text in the menus in a post... somewhere.

Sometimes MM's and hotkeys can get "stuck" in between actions, but that's usually when dragging off from a window. I'd also guess a malformed MM, but you also mention it's a fresh install; I presume you didn't add anything. Did both installations come from the same source?

oglu

the text in your MM is a bit small.? do you have vray installed.? its doing strange things to maya ext2...

Bartalon

After some private Q&A we came to what we think is the problem / solution.

The W hotkey for whatever reason was set to the command "buildTranslateMM" for both press and release.  There is a more up to date command set that should be used for proper marking menu behavior in 2016 (as seen in the hotkey editor window):

W (PRESS) -- Other Items > Marking Menus > Translate Tool With Snap Marking Menu
W (RELEASE) -- Other Items > Marking Menus > Translate Tool With Snap Marking Menu Pop Down