Lost Objects When Rendered

[jhbae]

Hi, all. I'm a new user of Maya 2008, and trying to make simple movies including rotating and zooming objects together with transparent objects. Even though I can see objects are rotating and zooming in the workspace (I mean the main window of Maya), it disappears when rendered. The rendered scene is white. I can see blue-colored skeleton-like object if I snapshot the scene. I tried to make it again, and found it happens again. I also tried not to save the changes so that I could recover the old settings of the file to re-start, but, somehow, Maya updated the file regardless I clicked not to save the changes. I have no idea how I can fix these two issues. So, please advise me to solve these. Thanks in advance.

[gmask]

What happens if you just assign a gray shader to the objects and render?

Are you sure you picked the correct camera in the render settings?

[jhbae]

I tried to assign one object of the scene grey phong as you asked, it gave a grey scene without any object. I assigned the perspective camera for the rendering. It worked upto this problem.

[jhbae]

I tried to render it again to see if i can see any error message for it, and it says " Error: listNode command failed". I don't know what this means nor how to solve it. I also don't know if this is the cause of the problem.

[gmask]

I dunno.. sounds like a problem with your install.. what OS are you running?

[jhbae]

OS X

[gmask]

Hmm.. you might need to try a reinstall

[jhbae]

That serious? hmm.... Thanks a lot, though.

Does anybody have an idea?

[gmask]

yea.. there is no other reason that such a basic render would generate such an error. You coudl try deleting your prefs first but I'm not sure where they are stored on OSX off the top of my head