Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "look"

[Anonymous]

Hello, I have problem Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "look" when click on object(anything) on outliner.

From this time, caused some error in arnold rendering. it's not solved after re-install maya 2019.
need help!

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[sean.heasley]

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the community!

Do you have any custom plugins or script that Maya could be looking for when doing that?

The quickest test for this is to try deleting your settings/preferences.

Please let me know if anything changes!

[sean.heasley]

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.

[Anonymous]

It seems to come from the workspace itself!
If you open the workspace json, you can clearly see in the outliner widget the following command :

-selectCommand \"look\"

 We are currently having the same issue and I noticed it while reading the maya folder.
I will probably update you if we find a solution :)!

[Anonymous]

So far, we found out that our scene had a selectCommand written in it for the outliner, and this line in the .ma gets written in the workspace's json once the scene has been saved.
So the steps we did to clean up this is to go in the scene and use this mel command  : 

outlinerEditor -edit -selectCommand "" "outlinerPanel1";

or python command : 

maya.mel.eval('outlinerEditor -edit -selectCommand "" "outlinerPanel1";') 

and we saved the scene.
We then cleaned our workspace json - it could by deleting the preferences and reopening maya, or it could be by just manually removing the selectCommand from the json file.

Have a nice day :)!

[Anonymous]

But why we saved the scene?. What happending with this scene? 

[Anonymous]

Hi, I have the same problem. Where as, when I click on the object in the outliner, that message come out : //Error line 1 : cannot find procedure "look" 

Can you help me with this? Thanks ! 

[vincentzhang420]

I have the same problem.and You save me. I do appreciate it

[ldscowgorl411]

reply to: funky_cool_girl_rita

i don't understand your fix? how do i find the scene and where do i put the command below? thanks

Post i am asking about...

So far, we found out that our scene had a selectCommand written in it for the outliner, and this line in the .ma gets written in the workspace's json once the scene has been saved.

So the steps we did to clean up this is to go in the scene and use this mel command:

outlinerEditor -edit -selectCommand "" "outlinerPanel1"

or python command : 

maya.mel.eval('outlinerEditor -edit -selectCommand "" "outlinerPanel1";') 

[ldscowgorl411]

So far, we found out that our scene had a selectCommand written in it for the outliner, and this line in the .ma gets written in the workspace's json once the scene has been saved.

So the steps we did to clean up this is to go in the scene and use this mel command:

outlinerEditor -edit -selectCommand "" "outlinerPanel1"

or python command : 

maya.mel.eval('outlinerEditor -edit -selectCommand "" "outlinerPanel1";') 

[Andy_vs]

outlinerEditor -edit -selectCommand "" "outlinerPanel1"

worked for me! super weird. I had a scene where I just imported 2 OBJs. 
And when I'd switch between selecting meshes (in the outliner) I'd get that error. 

[chenyangjg]

The reason for this problem is because of the "uiConfigurationScriptNode" in one or more of your Maya files (windows->Animation Editors->Expression Editor->select Filter-> By node Script name: "uiConfigurationScriptNode")

Line 531 in this script has "-selectCommand 'look'".

How to handle: 

1. if your file suffix name is ".ma", open the file as text, search for "look", find "-selectCommand 'look'  ", delete it, and save it. 

2. If it is in the ".mb" format, open the file with Maya and save it as a file with the suffix ".ma" before starting with the first step.

3. open the Maya document folder, (C: users, Youname, Documents, maya, 2018, prefs, workspaces, delete the "Maya_Classic.json" file, or delete the "Maya_Classic.json" file in the "-selectCommand \'look'\\".

[1654226635]

its done,thank you