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Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:58:15 GMT

I was just practicing modelling, following a step by step tutorial but somehow I got this happened to my object, which I don't think supposed to

How do I fix it?

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:04:52 GMT

Try to select black faces and go to mesh display>reverse.

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:16:29 GMT

Tried it, nothing happened.

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

mspeer — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 07:30:48 GMT

Hi!

3 possible scenarios:

1. Normals are reversed, can be checked in Viewport Menu with Lighting -> Two Sided Lighting (toggle on/off).
Make sure the normals are unlocked,
Mesh Display -> Unlock Normals, then
Mesh Display -> Reverse Normals

2. A Color Set is applied.
Mesh Display -> Color Set Editor (Select Color Set and hit "Delete")

3. Wrong Material.
Assign the correct Material to the faces, or the whole object.

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

lauris4747 — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:23:47 GMT

This happens because of reasons other mentioned, but also if merged parts had different materials/uv sets. Those uvs have to be manually moved to default map trough uv editor. For me it is very annoying, since I have to merge ten thousands of objects.

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

soongstephanie — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:23:14 GMT

So helpful. THANK YOU

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

m.aertsSSM66 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:45:47 GMT

Thanks! This helped me with maya 2020 too!

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

b.l.rutlidge — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:47:33 GMT

None of these solutions worked for me, so worst-case scenario:

Do a plane obj export of the model import that back into Maya and reapply your textures.

Hope this help people in the future 🙂

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

s20000173 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:45:54 GMT

Hi!

even though its a late response, this might help somebody.

Try Lighting > select "use default lighting".

Sometimes you might accidentally press 7 which toggles on "all lighting"

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

mohid_metadortVUS2Z — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:16:27 GMT

I Faced this problem while combining all meshes of my Character in maya & The One Way That worked for me Is to Copy UV sets from Map that are not showing and paste them to the one that is showing in the first place then past the rest Uv shells to the main map through UV SETS - COPY VU'S ( If the there's only one texture of all meshes)

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

ls100s — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:19:09 GMT

I just had this problem with 2022 as well. this helped. Thank you!

Re: Maya 2016, part of object turned to black. Help

strixserpent — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:31:45 GMT

Thank you so much, kind stranger! Disabling the two-sided lighting feature did the trick! 😄