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Maya Scene is Green and Objects are Missing

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:37:34 GMT

Hi all,

I'm working on a school project and I really need some technical help. Whenever I open my Maya scene, everything is neon green. I have a few objects I brought into the scene and those are at the origin point and not where I placed them. Some of my objects are also missing, but I can see them in the outliner?? I'm very upset because I've worked on this project for hours and I can't continue until I get this solved. Maya has been crashing on me as well at random times. I get the error message "file contains unknown nodes or data." Can someone help me please? I can't find any answers to solve this for me. Everything in the scene is green upon opening the fileObjects are moved to center point

Re: Maya Scene is Green and Objects are Missing

jordan.giboney — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:58:06 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for posting! 🙂 That bright green color means that the connection between the object, and the applied shader (texture) has been lost. Are you using a Project Folder for this scene? Project folders help maintain those connections by using a consistent set of folders:

Scenes Folder: your scene files (.ma or .mb, also any additional imported files like OBJ's or FBXs)
Source Images: Texture files
Audio: Sounds
etc...

Whenever you want to work on your scene, set the project folder first (File > Set project), and then open your scene file. This will preserve texture connections.

For objects moving to the center/origin, I would make sure that you delete the history on those objects (not character rigs). Select the prop objects, and select Edit > Delete by type > history. That way they wont be influenced by the previous actions applied to them (move/scale/rotate/etc).

Thanks again for being a part of our community!

Re: Maya Scene is Green and Objects are Missing

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:49:37 GMT

Hi @jordan.giboney

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, I can not do any of the stuff you mentioned because I am getting errors such as "this file contains mental ray nodes" and that it can be changed. Maya keeps crashing on me every few minutes and I'm really at a loss ;(((

Re: Maya Scene is Green and Objects are Missing

mspeer — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 03:44:13 GMT

Hi!

1. Make sure to use the exact same Maya versions with all required plug-ins for working on the same project.

2. "this file contains mental ray nodes"

This should not prevent you from doing any edits.

For further help,. please provide your scene-file.

Re: Maya Scene is Green and Objects are Missing

rehab_salem83 — Wed, 12 May 2021 20:25:20 GMT

i have a scene that i worked in from my friend PC and when i open it it all characters and location are green despite of i downloaded all the textures!!! can anyone help?!