so i am using the student version of maya 2014 and when i go in to rig my model like my teacher showed us, instead of the green circle with the 4 lines attached to the next point of rigging and so on, i get this weird purple dot and the lines are either not there or are going in some funky direction... there is also a purple line near the circle that will rotate when i move my mouse around without releasing.
my teacher says he has never seen this before. does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? i am attaching a screenshot of the above mentioned problem