Black flicker and other issues

[t_smith5]

Hi

I've recently started using Maya and I'm currently following a tutorial on how to make a Lightsaber. I've come across a few issues I'm confused about though. The first one is this weird black flicker I get whenever I make some edge loops with the Knife Tool. It's almost as though there are faces overlapping faces, but in Wireframe mode, I don't see any that suggests there are. I've adjusted the camera's Near Clip Plane to 1, but that hasn't made any difference. They even stay if I delete the edge loops. o_O

The other issue is selecting specific faces using left click and drag. The tutorial shows the guy using the Select Tool, clicking on a face, right click and selecting Faces and then left click dragging the section of faces he wanted. When I do it, it selects everything.

And finally, I've noticed at times that if I hold right click, instead of the buttons appearing for Face, Edge, Vertices etc., a typical menu bar comes up instead. I'm guessing you have to right click on an edge of the wireframe or face to get those buttons to appear?

[t_smith5]

Nobody? 😕

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

You have multiple faces on top of each other.

Select one face and move or delete it and you see the problem.

[t_smith5]

That's what I figured initially, but could never see any in X-Ray mode. If I try to select one ring of faces, it selects the whole body for some reason. Any reason for this? Deleting the Edges/Vertices deleted the ring of faces I wanted to select and the flickering has gone. 🙂

[t_smith5]

Jesus, compared to Blender, Maya is so needlessly complicated, frustrating and unintuitive! I haven't figured out how to create faces properly yet, but from what I can get, it's horrible. In Blender, it's a simple case of selecting 2-4+ vertices and edges and pressing F. Maya's way of doing it makes no sense. And it's really frustrating me how drag selecting faces when not in X-ray mode is selecting a load of other faces on the model elsewhere.

[babu.rahaman]

hi i am working on maya 2018....while i am modeling shop i am facing this black overlapped faces ..but when i check their is no overlapped faces..please any one can help me our what is prablum..i am attaching screenshopts

[Anonymous]

Hello, the black flicker can be caused by two reasons, one is double-sided in the polygon and the other is by very large scale projects with very thin mesh. Solution for the second case: increase the number of Near Clip Plane in the properties of the camera. Hope this can help you.

[braNMAD85]

I know this topic is super old, but I just wanted to thank you. I come from the far-off time of two thousand and twenty four, and this black flickering edge **** has been plaguing me for months. Finally, after all this time, I learn that it's as simple as adjusting the near clip plane.

Thank you so much!