settings problem

[mental]

not sure if this will work but:

select all of your components in the Hypergraph and export them into a new scene > File > export selection > choose to save it as a new maya scene.

hopefully that will clear out whatever is causing the problem.

[womanonfire]

oh!
i've had this problem once too
i could not fix it and lost my character (had a backup earlier version but still... lost work)
very sad.
it seemed to happen when i was using the cut face tool and then tried to undo the results then
*zzzip* gone.
i will remember the above tip if it ever happens again.

[Tom N.]

you might have deleted your shape node somehow. If you make an object (for example a poly sphere) and you go into hypergraph and show up and downstream connections, you'll see 3 different nodes for it. One is called "polysphereshape" or something like that... if you delete it, your sphere gets deleted but the other 2 nodes that are leftover still stay.

That might be why you can still see your character in hypergraph. You still have the leftover nodes.

However I dont know how you would have accidently deleted a shape node:shrug:

Thats all I can think of. Try showing up and downstream connections for your character in hypergraph and see if the shape node is there.

-Tom N.

[Garma]

thanks for your suggestions, but they didn't solve the magical dissapearing. The shapenode was there.

I think the strangest part is the fact that the "bug" affects you backups... shouldn't be possible I think.

I think I'm gonna start over right now, grab a pot of coffee and work all night.

thanks again.

[sp0rk3d]

well it could be any number of things.... you might have isolate selected turned on.... you may have just turned off polys in your view panel, you might have keyframed the visbility off.... possibly you messed up the shape node but that is unlikely.... if you post the file we might be able to help better..... :|

[Garma]

well, it just happened to me again. It really starts to look like a bug. I use imageplanes for referencing. At some point I didn't need them anymore and I wanted to delete them.

I went to the multilister, selected the cameras tab and tried to delete the plane with the key "del" which doesn't work (you need to do it from the menu), but it was kindof a reflex :) and Behind the multilister I saw my char dissapear. That's what happened.

[sp0rk3d]

ouch that sounds like you might have deleted your character......
you cannot undo???..... if you post the file we will still have a better idea.... is the mesh node of your charater still in the scene?... ie in the outliner or hyperGraph ??? if so does it look like the other nodes or is it greyed out or blue or anything odd.... ???

[sethmisek]

that used to happen to me alot in 4.0
seemed to happen when i tried to undo.
had to go to backup files.:thumbsdow

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