Weird Hypershade Nonsense

[thanoz]

I recently had my texture file stop showing up in the UV Texture Editor. Instead of showing the texture, it would display the texture "sphere" of a Lamber1, or sometimes Particle Cloud, depending on which scene I was viewing.

My first solution to this, was I deleted original Lambert with the file connection completely, then made a new one. This changed it from being a lambert ball, to being a ball of the new texture, as it would be displalyed in hypershade. I know this sounds confusing, but it's acting this way in all my scenes now, so I know it isn't scene specific. I went back to my old Maya 5.0 and the problem was NOT there in any of those scenes. So some setting in Maya 6 was set to haywire, and I just don't know what it is or how to reset it all completely! Please help, currently reinstalling maya.

[joojaa]

delete the users prefs folder (or copy it waya, its by defaults in my doecuments/maya/6.0/ directory)

Have you upgraded to 6.0.1?

Also i might be a a graphics card/ driver related problem. Its something that surfaces every now and then, on non dcc cards (glitches usualy get fiixed pretty quickly on dcc cards as the chip manufacturer makes pathces on the driver level for theese, after all they get paid extra to do this whan you buy the card). Probably teh reason is the paging of memory form board to disk and back, wich is a valued feature in dcc uses whare theres a lot of stuff going on (more than in games), unoptimized, whereas its a secondary function on a gamer card.

[thanoz]

The preferences idea was a good one, but the problem remains.

Here's some odd things - Problem is not affecting the same files when opened in 5.0

And very importantly, this problem affects all files opened in 6.01, so it's not just the utilities, but perhaps something to do with the way Hypershade is handling them. But I do not know how to make Maya use Hypershade in 6.01 the same way it is in 5.0

I'm using the latest 6.01

I've used 6.01 for several months now without ever having a problem with this same hardware.

When I delete certain utilities in Hypershade things change. If I delete certain Utilities the ball that I see in UV Texture Editor will look like the textured Lambert Sphere that's in Hypershade instead of the default gray one it normally is showing me.

At the moment I'm stuck just using Maya 5.0 until I figure out why Hypershade is screwing with my UV Texture Editor. I mean I really wish it was a hardware issue, but then it wouldn't make sense that the hardware would have worked before for so long and still continue to work in Maya 5.0 on the same files.

[joojaa]

I've used 6.01 for several months now without ever having a problem with this same hardware.

have you uopgreded drivers or system? Sice thet has a tendency to bring hardware flaws to the system (newer dont mean less flaws)

[thanoz]

I haven't changed anything about my computer lately. The only real difference I've made at all was in Maya I made a button on my shelf that reload's my file texture without me going through material attribute editor. And it was just a simple cut and paste from script editor of me hitting the "Reload File Texture" button. The button used a script which asked for "File4" so in some of the different scenes I used with the buttons I did rename my texture's to File4 just sot he button would work. But I doubt that's the source of the problems and I don't know how I'd undo it if it was.

[joojaa]

hmm wierd indeed then...

[thanoz]

Well sooner or later I knew I'd get it or someone would. So here it is, stupidest problem, but easy solution as I thought.

Clicking the "Bake Editor Texture On/Off" button in Uv Texture Editor solves the problem completely. Hopefully anyone that tragically clicks that button unkowingly someday finds this thread and learns to click it back.

[joojaa]

Wierd that shiould have cleared when you deleted prefs. In new scenes anyway (it is scene persisten thank god for that, imagine a scene where the swatches take 12 hours to regenerate, happened to me once, quickly killed maya and used mel to set the flag)