Green polygon Faces

[Anonymous]

Hey I was wondering has anyone seen this in Maya 2016. I am modelling a Messerschmitt and I am using the duplicate special so I can mirror my sculpt. Every time I open my file I'm getting these green faces in Random places on my model. I was using the stock lambert shader before this happened then I applied a new lambert to fix the problem and now it is back. What does not make sense is that it is only on the instanced side of my model. I am chalking this up to a bug but if its something else I would love if someone could let me know what it is. Cheers.

[Anonymous]

*facepalm* whatever man, whatever...

[Anonymous]

Maya 2017 sp4

1 - Delete history - not working

2 - Apply new material - not working

3 - Delete -set new UV - not working

4 - Combine with other mesh and separate - not working

5 - reload maya - not working

6 - duplicate polygons - not working

What`s going on? 2017 ver and this bug near 10 years not resolve.

[Anonymous]

ty guys. So a corrupted shader? A new material fixed it, so I am guessing this was the correct diagnosis? Anyways, it fixed my random green object. So tyvm. Sorry for the bump ... but .... well it's fixed now and I am happy.. so ty.

[Anonymous]

Worked like a charm, nice one!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tip. I had the same issue, just assigned the default lambert material and then re-applied my textured blinn material and all is well with the virtual world.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't this just mean the UV was off? Maybe a dumb idea, who knows. 

[Anonymous]

Make sure your surface isn't liveUncheck the magnet

[mspeer]

Hi!

@Anonymous

that's a different issue, you set a live surface:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2018/ENU/?guid=GUID-EBF1E652-4DDD-423F-B42E-3BF85AE46A5D

[EkDoreo]

I know this has been solved. But I have something to add that might help someone in a situation I was just in.

I just had an outwardly identical situation caused by a completely different scenario and easy to solve when you know why it happens. I had some objects referenced in my scene in the past. At some point I removed the reference and imported the object directly. But by chance I had the exact same material (as I was having issue with) in a different reference that I have kept using. So when I imported the objects, it assigned the matching material to the referenced one. I didn't realise this. So while working I turned off (hid) my references in the references manage (not removed; unticked them). I didn't realise I had an issue because I also by change hid the group containing the object that were using that material. But later made that group visible again and they were that vibrant green. I was not able to clear the surface and reapply as I have done in the past and as mentioned in the topic.

After reading this I got a hunch to turn on my references and all the materials loaded. Makes sense but was a gotcha regardless. Would have been nice to not have the material match up with the reference automatically. I guess it useful to do so if you are using a reference set of materials. But it seems a referenced material applied is unlink-able when the reference is not presently loaded. At least I wasn't able to find a way to unlink.

-Thanks for your time.

[Anonymous]

yea worked for me

[Anonymous]

using the trial of Maya 2020 and this bug still exists. I am with Maya since v1.0 and it is obvious that Maya still has a problem deep down in the core of creating geometry / keeping geometry clean. 10 years ago it was much harder than today, but still the software is not working stable in this manner and to say it clearly: No one has the motivation to change it. It is like it is with most politicians: You can ignore it or talk nicely about the topic and do nothing -> people will still follow you / buy your stuff.

This time I am a bit more angry than normal, because a simple 5min task now (again) became to a work of some hours and still nothing works, even the re-import as OBJ (is there a single one out there who has ever finished a professional project without using the OBJ-export-import script at least once during the project duration??).

[damaggio]

It’s hard to pin point why sometimes things don’t work for other users, and sometimes is definitely a bug that has been detected.
I have not yet encountered these issues in the above posts during production... keeping my fingers crossed.

Happy holidays guys .
 

[marcosdiaz13]

In maya 2019 (not sure if you can do this in other versions) you can save the  file (maybe with a different name just in case glitch doesn't disappear) and then open a new file.  Once new file is open, reopen the  saved file with  the green polygons.  Once the  "glitched" file is open green polygons should have disappeared.  Hope that helps.

[Anonymous]

mans really solved his own problem, and mine 😉 you're the goat

[Anonymous]

1. Excellentttttttttttttttttttttttttt:) It works and I;m using Maya 2020.3. Good Job man.

[AzWoodWarrior]

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I to was having the green face problem. Solved it with a aistandard surface. 

[rezashams3d]

Hello to all
To solve this problem, you can use the Advanced Skelton script

[belle.christhia]

this worked for me too. thank you so much~

[glitch2875]

The solution is very simple. Select the object, press shift+right mouse button and assign a new lambert to ur model. Thats it its fixed 

[rebekah_overbay]

Seems to be a shader issue. I had it happened when bridging edges on a model. The new faces were all green, but after selecting the object (Object Mode) and assigning a material it went back to normal. I just assigned the standard lambert material and it was fixed