One more day trying to get NOTHING done in Maya...
Apparently you can't reliably Set Initial State for nParticles with lifespan set to anything but Infinite in this version of Maya. I wasted my precious time today trying to figure out why this is not working. SET INITIAL STATE does not work. Or maybe it does if you save the scene and reopen it. Or maybe if you go back a frame before the START FRAME.
Either way it is ONE MORE BROKEN thing in Maya. Essentially nothing works anymore. Every click requires a workaround.
The company paying me to do this project is wondering why it's taking me so long to do what I am assigned. I could get into a discussion with them that they are using Maya 2017 Update 3, and that there is an Update 4 that MAYBE fixes this problem that wasted some of my time just now. But it's pointless having this discussion. Because the next version of Maya may not have fixed this. Or probably has introduced 50 other new bugs.
Why does this software suck so bad?
Is it the management?
Is it the developers?
It must be somebody's fault.
I don't care to know any more workarounds in this software. This software has failed a long time ago. And it's just getting worse and worse even though it's hard to imagine HOW it could still be getting worse. I am just curious as to who is responsible for its condition. Does Autodesk know how bad it is? Does it wonder why? Does it care? My guess is no.
I can't offer any information on this or any other of the thousand of bugs in Maya. That would be like offering my time to Autodesk for free. That's never going to happen. I use this program to make a living. Or at least I used to. Now I am just wasting time wondering what works, if anything.
And here is some good news. Create Sphere still works. WOW!
Other fun things that happen every day instead of getting anything done in Maya:
Every morning when I open my scene the first time Maya crashes. The second time it opens without necessarily crashing.
When my Hypergraph is open and minimized it will not open again with a hotkey. I have to find it and open it manually.
When I hit the S key my workspace switches to sculpting.
The interface font is too bloody small for my eyes. And the monitor that the company provides is what it is. I can't ask for a bigger monitor just because Maya decided to make the font so small. Scaling up the interface through the preference causes too many other problems.
The MayaStrings file that I have edited cannot be replaced because I don't have administrative privileges. So even reading the menus is difficult. Thanks a lot Maya developers and managers. You deserve a special Xmas gift for this. Something really smelly.
Alt+V to start playback rarely works. The mouse focus is almost always stuck somewhere else.
Typing a value in the Attribute editor and hitting TAB causes the Attribute editor to scroll to the next field. That didn't use to be like this before QT.
Who cares? I do.
EVERY NEW FEATURE you add to this crappy program should have an option to be disabled. And not through an environment variable in the Maya.env. EVERY NEW FEATURE!
Goodnight Maya team. Keep the bugs coming. It's what you do best.
Vomit.(Sorry)
