Invisible Polygon Object Please Help!

[eivind-tandberg]

I was modeling a car when suddenly the geometry dissapeared. The surface is still listed in the outliner but when I click on it, it cannot be seen. I've tried all the obvious stuff like show all etc, but it still remains invisible. When i click on the object name in the outliner i can see all the history so i presume it is still intact and I can still use transform tools ect, but can't see the object. Does anyone know what might of happened here?

[stevesayer]

Unfortunately there are a LOT of ways you can make something disappear in Maya.

Let's see... you've already tried Show All. Also try Show Selected, just in case... also make sure the layer that the object is in is set to 'Visible'... also open the Attribute Editor for that object and make sure that the Visible checkbox is checked (under Object Display)... also switch to another camera to see if it's visible from there; maybe you turned on 'Isolate Select' in your primary camera.

Don't forget that every object has two nodes, a Transform node and a Shape node. You can turn off the visibility on either of those.

Finally, if the object is a polygonal mesh, make sure you don't have any weird settings in Custom Polygon Display that would make it go invisible.

Good luck!

-Steve

[eivind-tandberg]

Thanks for the help Steve . I tried your suggestions but non of them worked. Its so weird... I can see the transform manipulator and its listed in the outliner but Its not visible. Don't know what i pressed (if i even pressed anything) to cause this to happen.

[s-j-tubbrit]

go into your Outliner, select Show DAG obejcts only, you'll see lots of extra crap appearing, basically all the extra tweaks and stuff you've been applying to the model, scroll down to the bottom, start deleting from the bottom up until your object appears. Once you've done that make sure you Delete All Your History and SAVE.

Try to delete your history more often when modelling, Maya 'really' doesn't like long history lists...

[eivind-tandberg]

Thanks! I must of let the history list get too big. I'll make sure I delete history more often in future

[s-j-tubbrit]

So you got your object back then, cool!

Glad to help.

Steve