It's rant time! :P Try this in Maya, any version will do: I know that selection behaviour in Maya is acclaimed by many users but I don't get it... It all feels nice and responsive but! Some faces can't be selected even if your cursor is right over them :O Maya tries to be smart and selects the faces slanted towards the…
Try selection the upper or lower edge, hold ctrl and press the right mouse button. Now select to faces. You now have the 2 faces that share this edge selected. Deselect the unwanted face by holding ctrl while selecting.
Maya 2008 has a lot of selecting problem for me. Once, all I had was 3 cubes. I clicked on the front most cube but could never got it selected, Maya 2008 selected the farthest cube behind it all the time.
looks to me there isn't a face there to begin with. the face you are trying to select seems not to be there it has the same color as the backround, wich makes me to belive it's nothing there, kinda hard to select a face thats not there, if it somehow is a face there, it might have got reversed normals somehow. and when i…
Also go into windows...polygon display and change the setting from face center to face so that instead of selecting the annoying dots...you can now just select the face as well by clicking on the face.
eheh pior, you still have workflow issues it's very right that the face selection in maya is not as good as it should be. The "face center" default selection, contrariwise, works very well, but you lost some speed