topic Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017 in Maya Forum

Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

arcon76 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:06:19 GMT

In 2017 Update 1 the Outliner lists all shading group nodes. Display > DAG objects only is checked... selecting the nodes and right click > Hide in Outliner also has no effect. This is abnormal behavior resulting in a bloated Outliner which doesn't happen in 2016.5. I have tried re-recreating the userprefs.mel to no effect, it still happens in a new scene.

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

ShaunBrettig7993 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 03:13:26 GMT

Yes, looks like a bug.

ATM it looks like they are doing some other work with the outliner for 2017 with the introduction of a Display > Assigned Materials command.

You should use Help > Speak Back > Report a Problem to advise the developers of the issue.

Regards

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:44:50 GMT

I have same problem.

Try this way,

windows > Preferences > Rendering > Perferred Render Setup System change to Legacy Render Layers

Restart maya2017

Outliner already solved problem.(hide shading group node) but next,

windows > Preferences > Rendering > Perferred Render Setup System change to Render Setup

Restart maya2017

solved problem.(hide shading group node)

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

13freyr — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:26:22 GMT

Doesn`t work. Creating fresh scene not working too. Very annoying bug

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

カワダチアキ — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:57:30 GMT

In 2017 update1, [Hide In Outliner] > [Hide] doesn't work for shader node.

This issue was reported to our development team to fix it. However if it's by design, I will input here.

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:48:06 GMT

It's still happening with update2. Is is still on the way to be fixed?

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 20:15:28 GMT

I'm also getting all the extra nodes in the outliner, it's seems to be completely random.

One project it's fine but in another I get something like this:

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

arcon76 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 03:13:18 GMT

FYI this is still broken in Update 3 so I guess the Outliner is not a priority... Maya still can't remember its window size as well lol.

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:12:54 GMT

Yup still broken on 2017 update 3 cluttering the outliner... am I missing something is the outliner not something people use everyday? seems like this would be a priority ? Its like maya thinks the shading group is a DAG node and shows it. I have seen this bug in maya for years now lol

So yeah you can delete preferences or reload scene without references etc...or try other stuff... like using a Rubber Chicken with a Pulley in the middle lol

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

RFlannery1 — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:39:08 GMT

I found this knowledge base article with a workaround for the problem: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/In-Maya-2017-the-Outliner-is-not-filtering-out-like-it-did-in-previous-versions.html

(P.S. +1 for rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. I love that game!)

Re: Outliner bug with shading nodes - 2017

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:28:59 GMT

Awesome that script worked great. Looks like Autodesk is aware of the issue as well.

Thank you so much RFLANNERY I am happy I dont have to resort to my Guybrush techniques 🙂