Maya model turns blue when smoothed

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm working on a model and decided to smooth it by going to Mesh > Smooth.

After that, my model turned blue and continues to be blue even when I apply new materials, move vertices around, etc.

Why isn't this going away?

Attached is a screenshot of the problem.

[Thiird]

I guess that's because you have the sculpt brush turned on, honestly I dont know.

Try to hit "w" on the keyboard to switch to the select tool.

If thats not working send me the model.

[Anonymous]

Even when I use other tools, it doesn't work. 😞

For some reason my model is solid black now. I was working on it last night, but it was still solid blue when I saved it. I deleted history on the model to see if that would help.

I have attached my Maya modelas a zip folder because the forum won't allow me to upload a .mb file.

[Thiird · Accepted solution]

Solved.

I really dont know what was wrong with your model...I checked the normals, the material....everything I know could be the problem.

At the end I tried to perform a dublicate faces to all the model and it triggered the material to pop up, nothing else :).

Nice character btw 😄

I would reccomend to save in .ma and not in .mb: I read thats better if you want to recover the file...stuff like that.

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much, dude!

Thanks for naming all my stuff too, I should've done that from the beginning.

[Thiird]

You're welcome 🙂

Yea I used to name things in that way since I saw some videos on the Autodesk yt channel, I reccomend you to do so too.

Thanks for the kudo, have a good day 🙂

[Anonymous]

Hi!

I have the same problem, could you tell me step by step what have you done to solve it? I'm new in Maya... 

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure what zthird99 did to my model either, but try deleting history and non-deformer history, then duplicating the model. 

[BoDiddley]

Hi there, 

I've had this problem recently, where my mesh went blue after smoothing i solved this by selecting my mesh then going to Mesh Display > Apply Colour then in the settings for that, select remove colour, then hit apply.

Im using maya 2016. Hopefully this will help if someone comes across the same issue

[Anonymous]

This is caused by having color sets assigned to your mesh.

1. Right click on the mesh

2. Color Sets -> Color Sets Editor

3. Select color set in the GUI, press the "Delete" button

Now when you smooth the mesh the color won't change.

[Anonymous]

Thankyou very much man. It saved me a lot...

[thiagogroo]

Thanks a lot elliot! 😄