Maya, ghetto piece of crap that it is sometimes, will stop displaying the pop up menus when your memory gets too low. Lot of times even closing and restarting maya doesnt help, as the memory remains cached.
A reboot on the PC will do the trick though.
I get a similar issue with certain objects from time to time, like the right click menu. I usually do the 'cube trick' to particular bit of mesh and it generally fixes these kinds of issues.
Cube Trick:
-create a primitive cube
-select the cube and the erroneous mesh
-combine
-delete the faces that form the cube
-delete history
9 out of 10 times, it will fix dodgy shit, like:
-not receiving vertex lighting bake
-UV unwrap exploding
-missing right click menus
-normals not conforming
-smoothing groups not applying
Ok never mind, my teacher didn't show up for class, so I didn't get to ask him any questions about Maya. I'm trying to learn Maya so that I can be a more rounded modeler once I get out of school. So if anyone would like comment on my questions that would be great, otherwise hopefully my teacher will be in class next week!
1. How do I change the little square in the middle of the move tool.
2. This has been touched on but I'll ask anyway... When I right click nothing happens...
3. What does the orange color in the input area on the right mean.
4. Sometimes W,E, and R don't work. I noticed that when I pushed them the orange would appear.
5. Somehow my undo went from ctrl Z to shift z, and I would like to change it back.
6. And lastly, when I push "F", it frames all of my view ports at once instead of the active one with my cursor over it, and I just want it to frame my active viewport.
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A reboot on the PC will do the trick though.
Cube Trick:
-create a primitive cube
-select the cube and the erroneous mesh
-combine
-delete the faces that form the cube
-delete history
9 out of 10 times, it will fix dodgy shit, like:
-not receiving vertex lighting bake
-UV unwrap exploding
-missing right click menus
-normals not conforming
-smoothing groups not applying
I really need to write a 'cube trick' melscript.
-caseyjones
1. How do I change the little square in the middle of the move tool.
2. This has been touched on but I'll ask anyway... When I right click nothing happens...
3. What does the orange color in the input area on the right mean.
4. Sometimes W,E, and R don't work. I noticed that when I pushed them the orange would appear.
5. Somehow my undo went from ctrl Z to shift z, and I would like to change it back.
6. And lastly, when I push "F", it frames all of my view ports at once instead of the active one with my cursor over it, and I just want it to frame my active viewport.
Thanks for helping me out!
Hit Insert to change the pivot of an object (that little square).
4, 5 and 6 are a CAPS issue.