Will reinstalling change anything, or do I just not understand the program...?

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:24:03 GMT

Hey guys,

My problem:

I am using Maya since about five or 6 weeks. But I have done much in this five or six weeks.

Last week I was at the point where I had to create a character for a game in Unreal.

And instead of building a character I am fighting with bugs and bugs and bugs and more bugs.

Ok, maybe Im just too stupid for this program, but I think, when I open Maya and I cant use the right mouseclick (had to restart it multiple times) or when anything goes wrong and I just have to restart the program and it works, it is a bug! But thats not the main problem. The main problem is, there are a kind of things or tools, they just dont work right after restarts as well.

For example: Sometimes I cant Paint Skin Weights. I have to restart the program and still get little bugs. Or importing Wheightmaps doesnt work. I tried it 3 days ago and it didnt work. I tried it yesterday it didnt work. I tried it today in the morning, it worked (I changed nothing and used exactely the same actor). I tried it an hour ago again it didnt work (if I rotate an arm or sth like that, there are Wheited Vertecies at points, there should never be some) (also same result after I Merged all Vertecies).

And these are only two examples. I hat many many more things, they just didnt work...

The whole week, I was trying hard to get clearer about the "bugs" with watching Tutorials, reading the Documentations and just trying everything I get in mind.

But now I gove up, Rigging an easy Low-Poly-Character for the game, because, I just get more and more bugs (I already HAD the Mesh, it was "just" about Rigging and later (didnt reach this goal) animations).

I am using Maya 2017 by the way, but sometimes, when I go in maya 2016, I get same results or other bugs 😄

Many thanks, if anyone could say me, wheather its e or not...

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Will reinstalling change anything, or do I just not understand the program...?