Maya 8.5 - layers don't work with high quality

dnorth

Now that I'm on Maya 8.5, when I turn on high quality rendering, display layers don't seem to hide meshes when I turn off their visibility. Works fine under default quality rendering. Maybe it's my video card? (Geforce 7900 with latest forceware). Anyone else have the same issue? One of my co-workers is having the exact same problem.

Mongrelman

Nah, just one of the joys of maya 8.5.

If you want to hide stuff, go to windows>hypergraph heirarchy

and right click>hide on the model in that window.

dnorth

Wow really? Always worked fine in Maya 7...dang, that sorta blows...

Thanks a lot for the response.

Illusions

Ctrl + H for Hide, and Shift + H to UnHide if the layers have you down.

dnorth

Yeah, hiding and showing work fine - it's just I wish the layers worked. The file I'm working on is very complex so I need to be able to quickle toggle sets of things off and on. Maybe I'll have to write a couple quick mel scripts tyo show and hide what I want. Anywy, thanks guys.

Illusions

You could always group the objects like you would put them in layers, then hide and unhide the object groups. Hell if you wanted to you could setup, like you said, a mel script to handle hiding and unhiding the group, that way you could drag and drop what you need into and out of the group without worrying about anything breaking your scripts.

dnorth

Just an update if anybody else was hating this - this problem seems to be fixed under Maya 8.5 SP 1. YAY!