Thanks mop for the fast response. The refresh worked, now it shows the thumbnail but when i assign the material to the model, i get this error "// Error: Error while parsing arguments."
Anyone ever tried to pin down exactly what was causing the error? A name conflict maybe (I saw this error last week at work, it was caused by 2 objects with the same name in different Groups or something)? It's sometimes worth popping open the script editor and looking at the last few lines, since sometimes the final…
That error happens to me too sometimes. It usually goes away when restarting. Sometimes you can get around it by using an alternative method for assigning (MMB drag, RMB assign on the object or RMB assign on the material)
try importing the model into an empty comp fixes almost all issues like this in maya, also this error is caused by lots of different things ive seen it before 3 times on my own stuff each time with different fixes one was because i had messed with the initial shading group, one was because the mesh had been extracted and…