student needing help with selection tool

[kristagrayson52]

Hi, due to the corona virus I had to leave far away from my school. For a project I had to make a high poly model, and I submitted it online so luckily I could open it in maya (my school uses 2018) at home. However, when i try to select something like a face, it's almost like the program does not detect my mouse in the right place. For example, if i select a face, another different face is selected. I tried to reset preferences, along with turning off reflection/symmetry, and camera based selection is already selected and it does not work. I'm not sure if it's my laptop, since when i re submitted the file, my teacher opened it and was able to select faces normally. What should I do?

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Try different Viewport modes / Render engine settings like "DirectX".
(Preferences -> Display -> Viewport 2.0)

[jordan.giboney]

Hi @kristagrayson52 

Thanks for posting! Your note about the professor being able to open it accurately makes me think that there may be something with your mouse or trackpad. Do you have another mouse that you could test with your machine? 

Does your mouse/trackpad work as expected with other programs on your laptop?

Thanks for being a part of our community!

[kristagrayson52]

This worked, thank you 🙂