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georgenz
11-09-2005, 01:56 AM
Sometimes, (very, very rarely), when I combine some meshes together in Maya they disappear altogether in the viewports but the transform nodes etc all remain in the outliner. No booleans were used either.

I can export as an obj and bring it back in and it works fine, but this isn't really a great option. I'd prefer to know why it happens and how to fix it in Maya or how to avoid it.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Craiger
11-09-2005, 03:38 PM
it might be an issue with history. Have you tried deleting history on the two objects before you combine them?


werd.
georgenz
11-09-2005, 07:17 PM
Yeah, have tried that unfortunately. Doesn't help though.
pip2k
11-09-2005, 10:31 PM
Same problem with me, any ideas? The object just dissapears?
mattwright
11-09-2005, 10:47 PM
I know this is a retarded question... but you dont have the two objects isolated do you - and when you combine the new object isn't isolated... so it looks like they dissapeared...


This is one of my many daily "doh"s!!
akewt
11-20-2005, 11:33 AM
i am getting this problem. it has only cropped up in version 7. again i combine objects and they disapear completely leaving only their transform nodes. anyone else having this problem in maya 7?


its a very annoying bug as there is no way to undo it! THE MESH WILL NEVER RETURN!
georgenz
11-20-2005, 07:26 PM
I know this is a retarded question... but you dont have the two objects isolated do you - and when you combine the new object isn't isolated... so it looks like they dissapeared...


This is one of my many daily "doh"s!!

Naa, they're not isolated.
dragonlair81
11-20-2005, 07:51 PM
can you select them and then reasign the material to them? That might work
georgenz
11-20-2005, 07:55 PM
Naa, that's a different problem which I have experience before of the mesh losing its shader. The problem here is the mesh disappears altogether.

I think I may have recently read somewhere that it is a known bug in Maya that Alias seem reluctant to fix. Typical.
akewt
11-20-2005, 08:00 PM
yeah its definately a bug and i never had it in v5,6,6.5. it must be v7. have alias acknowledged it but arent doing anything about it?
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