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Konstruct
03-07-2003, 04:23 AM
can anyone think of any reasons I wouldn`t be able to convert anything?

the only thing in my conversion menu is "nurbs to polygons".

WTF????
skigil
03-07-2003, 04:58 AM
what do you want to convert, and what version of maya are you using.
Konstruct
03-07-2003, 05:24 AM
4.5- anything really-
just the options to do things like "poly to sub-ds" or poly to nurbs etc. arent even showing up in the menu.

just nurbs to poly
bambam
03-07-2003, 06:07 AM
save your maya prefs file under a different name (so you can get it back if you need it) and then dump it

restart maya

I'v had my prefs file screw things up like this before
Konstruct
03-08-2003, 04:29 AM
i think if I was still on OS9 (mac) that might work, but I`m on OSX and the only thing maya has that could be considered maya preferances are in two places:

the first:
applications/maya/application_support/scripts/start_up

its called: mayaPrefs.mel
so trashing it, only makes it so maya won`t start up.

the second:
Library/Preferences/AliasWavefront/maya/4.5/prefs

and theres a couple of them:
-pluginPrefs.mel
-userHotkeys.mel
-userNamedCommands.mel
-userPrefs.mel
-windowPrefs.mel

trashing these allows the program to still start up, but nothing is fixed.

Grrrr. someone please help. I`m totally stuck.
bambam
03-08-2003, 06:53 AM
Im not sure how the maya enviroments are set up on OSX but I'm guessing there the same

you should have a prefs dir and in there are dirs for marking menus , icons ..... in there look for a userRrefs file

if its there dump that
bambam
03-08-2003, 08:19 AM
Im not sure how the maya enviroments are set up on OSX but I'm guessing there the same

you should have a prefs dir and in there are dirs for marking menus , icons ..... in there look for a userRrefs file

if its there dump that
Konstruct
03-08-2003, 06:06 PM
theres nothing called "userRrefs" just "userPrefs" (i asume its a typo)-
but dumping that did nothing. GRRRRR:thumbsdow
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