Move/Scale/Rotate Tool Broken!

holygon

Hey Polycounters, first time poster here

Anyway I have a problem, as the title says, my move/scale/rotate tools are broken for some reason I'm un-able to use them in certain views but am still able to use them in other views, rather than explain the bug here is an example in the form of a screen shot:

http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sadface.jpg

As you can see scale tool only works in side view, and I get similar results with the move and rotate tools (they only work in some views).

Not only do they gray out like shown above they also sometimes still work but don't have the arrow on the end of the line so instead I have to click on the thin line that leads up to the arrow to drag it to move or scale.

My PC specs are as follows (hopefully these are of use):

nvidia 7950GT
intel core2duo e6400
2GB of RAM

Windows 7 (RC)
Maya 2009

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I've tried googling/searching for a fix to the problem, but it's hard to find any results that are even remotely relevant

Thanks for reading/ any responses

BuCC

I can't view the image you posted, so it's hard to say what's up with your tools. As a bit of general advice I'd say exit maya and delete your prefs folder (or rename it). This will cause maya to create new default preferences the next time you run it, and hopefully reset your tools to normal behavior. I think the default location for the prefs folder are located in ..Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\maya\2009.

renderhjs

there was some maya bashing in this thread on a similar problem maya causes:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=63081

apparently maya fucks up with the history, nodes or some other spots and therefore sometimes fails at displaying the gizmo

claydough wrote: »

where's gizmo...

history is on or off?
history was deleted/frozen?
history node ( the projection node in this case ) isn't selected?
there is history... it's selected... then is the show manipulator tool selected? ( history's manipulator )


repeat the same for...

why can't I see extrude gizmo?
why can't I see transform component gizmo?
why can't I see the polygon input gizmo?
etc etc...

in the following example jes replace the extrude edge node logic with yer polyPlanarProj node:
( also history in the example 1 "history must be on" isn't entirely correct.
instead "history must have been on to create the node" )

Jason Young

I've seen it happen in the past and it's been a video card driver issue. Re-installing or rolling back the driver fixed it.

claydough

I suspect it is an openGL 3.0 3.1 driver incompatability problem with maya contexts.
Just a guess. Rolling back my ATI drivers to 8.12 ( pre 3.0? ) fixes similar rotation tool problems...
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=7&t=734980

apparently maya fucks up with the history, nodes or some other spots and therefore sometimes fails at displaying the gizmo

The point of that thread was that the history manipulator works on history...

renderhjs

oops my bad ._.

ivars

Make sure your video settings is set to 32-bit color. Having it set to anything lower will cause some strange display errors in maya.