My Maya 2016 Edu license has somehow borked itself this week. What used to be: 1) Loading models of 1 million tris+ into Maya would take a bit to load, but would load in fine with a tiny bit of chug in the viewport. What is happening now: 1) Load model of 1 million + tris into Maya >> Maya freezes (or just takes too long)…
Really all you should have to do for a fresh folder is to temporarily rename your "2016" folder under user/documents/maya/ and let Maya remake it from defaults. It can be useful for troubleshooting or isolating issues that you don't know where to start on; or even doing the same with the prefs or scripts folder inside.…
This might or might not be related, but the last time Maya broke on me was, indeed, because of a custom tool messing up environment variables. In my case it was Dota2/Source related stuff screwing up the Python paths, and it affected various areas of the program (viewport behavior, file/save dialogs and so on). It's bit of…
@throttlekitty I don't remember actively doing a fresh user folder with no custom stuff. What do I need to specifically Google to find that? I've tried older models, but they load just as slowly. Anything around the 1 million mark starts to hurt it, which it shouldn't when I've done this before. Looking into how to really…