Maya Scene is Green and Objects are Missing

[Anonymous]

Hi all, 

I'm working on a school project and I really need some technical help.  Whenever I open my Maya scene, everything is neon green.  I have a few objects I brought into the scene and those are at the origin point and not where I placed them.  Some of my objects are also missing, but I can see them in the outliner??  I'm very upset because I've worked on this project for hours and I can't continue until I get this solved.  Maya has been crashing on me as well at random times.  I get the error message "file contains unknown nodes or data."  Can someone help me please?  I can't find any answers to solve this for me.  Everything in the scene is green upon opening the fileObjects are moved to center point

[jordan.giboney]

Hi @Anonymous 

Thanks for posting! 🙂 That bright green color means that the connection between the object, and the applied shader (texture) has been lost. Are you using a Project Folder for this scene? Project folders help maintain those connections by using a consistent set of folders:

• Scenes Folder: your scene files (.ma or .mb, also any additional imported files like OBJ's or FBXs)
• Source Images: Texture files
• Audio: Sounds
• etc...

Whenever you want to work on your scene, set the project folder first (File > Set project), and then open your scene file. This will preserve texture connections. 

For objects moving to the center/origin, I would make sure that you delete the history on those objects (not character rigs). Select the prop objects, and select Edit > Delete by type > history. That way they wont be influenced by the previous actions applied to them (move/scale/rotate/etc).

Thanks again for being a part of our community!

[Anonymous]

Hi @jordan.giboney 

Thank you for your help.  Unfortunately, I can not do any of the stuff you mentioned because I am getting errors such as "this file contains mental ray nodes" and that it can be changed.  Maya keeps crashing on me every few minutes and I'm really at a loss ;(((

[mspeer]

Hi!

1. Make sure to use the exact same Maya versions with all required plug-ins for working on the same project.

2. "this file contains mental ray nodes"

This should not prevent you from doing any edits.

For further help,. please provide your scene-file.

[rehab_salem83]

i have a scene that i worked in from my friend PC and when i open it it all characters and location are green despite of i downloaded all the textures!!! can anyone help?!