is there a solution? Could not find an appropriate startup camera: front

maxetormer

Hello, my name is Luis Felipe, I'm staring to learn Maya, so good so far I'm likening the app a lot,

Heres my problem:
for some reason the default front ortho camera in the four view panel
is missing, and this is the error I get:

// Warning: Could not find an appropriate startup camera: front. A substitute will be used.

this messes up all the ortho cameras, linking all the views, so if I change one all the rest four become the same, I didn't found a record of someone else having this same issue on this forums, but I found something on CGtalk, however on that thread theres no answer to the problem, heres the link:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=7&t=254251&highlight=camera+reset

Now what I want to know is, is there a way to reset the default ortho camera positions?
I don't know MEL yet, I just started using the program around two weeks ago,
I'm all for learning so I will learn to read MEL, but for now can you guys help me out,

For some reason my front default camera is missing in the hipergraph, yes I know you
cant delete the main ortho cameras, but regardless the camera is missing, there has
to be a way to tell MAYA to reset all the cameras on the my file.

In the thread link I posted above no one found a solution for this problem, I found
a MEL scrip that makes the error warning disappear, but the ortho views are still broken
its really annoying to have to reselect all the cameras every time I go into four view,

Also I could export all my objects to a new scene (which is very impractical as I would need to this every time this error ocurrs) but when I export all the objects in my scene the objects in the hierarchy get the name that I gave to the export file, and exporting each individual object so they would conserve their names would be very time consuming.

Ok thats about it, I dare you to find a way to reset the main ortho cameras in MAYA

Thanks a lot for reading my post, and for any help you can provide on this matter.

TWilson

Sounds like a lot of work to help you on this one

What version of Maya?

This is a rare bug imo. I recommend a re-install of a different version. Aside from that you can try replacing your offending files with someone elses. They are likely found here: C:\Documents and Settings\Tyler\My Documents\maya\

Funky Bunnies

hmm could be that you edited the camera or something and then maya yelled at you.

Anyway, the easiest and quickest solution is to just file->import your scene file. that will use the startup ortho cams and all that

It's a rare error. As long as you don't do anything funny with the ortho cams you shouldn't run into it

KevinCease

Thank you, this saved my butt.

throttlekitty

Rare, really? This has always happened to me, in every install. Even if I choose one of the predefined bookmarks for a given ortho camera, like choosing right or left.

Froyok

This topic is a little bit old, but I have also found a very good solution to this problem. It's not always easy to reimport your scene, so I prefer this trick :

Source :
http://www.digitaltutors.com/forum/showthread.php?26781-couldnt-find-startup-camera

Simply use in the script editor/or in a mel script :

viewSet -home top; 
viewSet -home front; 
viewSet -home side;

It will reset all the orthographic camera to default.

Yung

You might have an object named "front" or used to be named "front". Do a search for it and rename it something else. Perhaps this could be causing the camera problem. Maya is like an old granpa/grandma who has problems recognizing which Steve is which Steve.