Cant find front camera

[thinsoldier]

this used to happen to me a lot as well, sometimes a re-install would fix it. But once fixed if I opened a scene which was afflicted with the problem, it would return. I wound up tracking down every file I had which did that, export it's contents as obj and re-import them into a new file. Luckily for me I'm just a wanna-be modeler and didn't have any animation so .obj export was fine for me. I would like to think somewhere on highend3d there is a script that addresses this problem.

[Digit]

I also get this problem but I dont have a solution, Im afraid. I have read another thread on CGtalk on this subject but dont think there was definitive fix for it.

[ephemeros]

save you scene as *.ma (maya ascii), then make an empty scene, save it also as *.ma and open them with a text editor. copy the lines creating your desired camera into the work scene and save. eg, for copying the top camera from the new scene, copy this lines:

createNode transform -s -n "top";
setAttr ".v" no;
setAttr ".t" -type "double3" 0 100.1 0 ;
setAttr ".r" -type "double3" -89.999999999999986 0 0 ;
createNode camera -s -n "topShape" -p "top";
setAttr -k off ".v" no;
setAttr ".rnd" no;
setAttr ".coi" 100.1;
setAttr ".ow" 30;
setAttr ".imn" -type "string" "top";
setAttr ".den" -type "string" "top_depth";
setAttr ".man" -type "string" "top_mask";
setAttr ".hc" -type "string" "viewSet -t %camera";
setAttr ".o" yes;

don't forget to make a backup first if you're not used to edit maya files, or with mel scripting.

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