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Question about Error Color management failure

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:06:59 GMT

Every time I've gone to maya since yesterday it gives me an error message that says Error color management failure .I've tried to follow the links to some of the other solutions to it, but none of them worked

Re: Question about Error Color management failure

sean.heasley — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:20:03 GMT

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the community!

We actually have an article on this issue!

From that article:

Try a different remote PC monitoring software, such as Team Viewer or RealVNC
Set viewport renderer to be DirectX not OpenGL
- To change this setting, navigate to Windows > Settings/Preferences > Preferences > Display > Scroll down, and select DirectX from the Rendering Engine drop-down menu

Set the following Environment Variables either through a system variable or through the maya.env file found in the preferences folder:
- MAYA_CM_DISABLE_ERROR_POPUPS=1
- MAYA_COLOR_MGT_NO_LOGGING=1
  - On Windows, locate your .env file by navigating to C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya\VERSION\Maya.env
  - Clicking on the file will open a blank document (unless you have other variables set). Copy and paste the above variables into the file and re-save

Re: Question about Error Color management failure

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:33:21 GMT

On my windows there is no Preference setting

Re: Question about Error Color management failure

sean.heasley — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:27:41 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Can you post a screenshot of that not option not being there?

This is a basic menu dropdown in Maya and should be there for every version of Maya.

Re: Question about Error Color management failure

sean.heasley — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:22:33 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Just wanted to check in to see how things were going. Are you still having this issue?

If your issue is resolved, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.