Problem with UV texture editor shells

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am trying to do this tutorial. I am mapping a texture using automatic mapping and I want to move around the shells. So i select my shells mode and select an individual shell from the UV texture editor but when I try to move it drags along parts of other shells. I get weird results when I try to rotate shells also. 

Please see the attached Image.

Couldn't find another post on this issue. Please Help!

Thank you

P.S. I am using latest version of maya 2015

[damaggio · Accepted solution]

Go to your maya folder on the PC is under documents , there's a prefs folder there rename it old and restart maya... It might have been corrupted ... Once maya relaunches it will create a new prefs folder., and should resolve the issue

[Anonymous]

Thank you

This worked but it restarted all my settings. 

Do you have an idea why this happened?

[damaggio]

That's an endless mystery, and happens to everyone using maya, sometimes again in a few months, sometimes it happens from scripts downloaded from the net that might conflict with some other function in Maya, in most case you never know why and need to start with a new preferences folder...I tend to make a copy of the folder from time to time in anticipation of getting bad again, that way i can just replace it with an earlier prefs folder.

[damaggio]

unfortunately Maya does not save all preferences you set....don't know why.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your replies. Maybe this will work for some of the other problems I've been experiencing