Anybody here use Maya 7

MarkyMark · 6 Jul 2006 at 10:32

Hey all. I'm having a bit of a problem at work using Maya 7.0.1. Basically, whenever objects/scenes are viewed in "high resolution" for the high quality rendering they dissapear from the screen. I've done all the normal stuff i.e. set the preferences back to default, stripped all the history out of the file but nothing seems to help it. It does not seem to be a hardware issue because the same file fails on different machines. The machines used are high specced beasts with high quality GFX cards and 4gb RAM, so its not lack of grunt.

I've been doing some searching over the last couple of days and people in other forums seem to have similar problems but nobody has found a solution to it yet.

So I was kinda hoping you OCUK gurus might know of a solution

Messiah Khan · 6 Jul 2006 at 10:49

Use 3D studio max instead

MarkyMark · 6 Jul 2006 at 11:28

messiah khan said:
Use 3D studio max instead

Oh man......lol, I was like....ohhhha reply already

Unfortunately we don't have much of a say in it

Maya 7.0 it is

MarkyMark · 7 Jul 2006 at 09:40

***BUMPAGE***

Any advance on nobody

Netguy · 7 Jul 2006 at 14:56

messiah khan said:
Use 3D studio max instead

Or Lightwave 3D

SamG · 7 Jul 2006 at 15:33

I have no idea why that is happening.

Try www.3dbuzz.com or www.cgtalk.com

MarkyMark · 10 Jul 2006 at 12:48

sam garland said:
I have no idea why that is happening.

Try www.3dbuzz.com or www.cgtalk.com

Thanks very much

Will check them out.

SamG · 10 Jul 2006 at 15:55

MarkyMark said:
Thanks very much Will check them out.

You could download the trial of X64 and try to render in that. Maya 7 is giving me a bit of trouble when there are too many polys in a scene. So I switched from XP to X64 just for Maya and it's solved the memory problems I was having.

I wouldn't recommend it as a main OS though.

Maniac618 · 10 Jul 2006 at 15:59

messiah khan said:
Use 3D studio max instead

I use max 8, but everyone who's anyone in the know tells me maya is better.

LostCorpse · 10 Jul 2006 at 16:14

I've not used Maya, but i have seen this problem on 3D Studio Max. what we had to do in the end was recreate the whole file (using 3DSM 4.2) i think it worked fine on version 5 or 6 when we tryed rendering it.

So i would suggest trying Maya 6.0 and see if that helps or you could ask Maya support direct?

MarkyMark · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:09

Emo_hug said:
I've not used Maya, but i have seen this problem on 3D Studio Max. what we had to do in the end was recreate the whole file (using 3DSM 4.2) i think it worked fine on version 5 or 6 when we tryed rendering it.

So i would suggest trying Maya 6.0 and see if that helps or you could ask Maya support direct?

yeah but unfortunately this high quality resolutions rendering thing was added in Maya 7. So 6 or even 6.5 don't have it

Messiah Khan · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:16

Maniac618 said:
I use max 8, but everyone who's anyone in the know tells me maya is better.

Tell that to the thousands of companies who use it. They both have theyre pros and cons, but generally max has more features. Ultimately, the best application is the one that you are the most happy and fluent in, as its not the application that matters, its the results of what you can create.