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Maya won't highlight my selection

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Message 1 of 11
Anonymous
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Maya won't highlight my selection

It's a problem that I've had for a day now. Maybe I hit some random button that made this happen? I'm not positive, but basically when I'm in any mode (vert, edge, face, etc...) Maya won't highlight my selection before or after my clicking on it. It also won't show where my line is going to go when I'm using split edge. Can anyone tell me what to do to fix this? I've already tried deleting the windowspref.mel but that didn't solve the problem.

thanks in advance
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Message 2 of 11
law0000
in reply to: Anonymous

try

perspective or other view, "show" menu, make sure "selection highlighting is checked
Message 3 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I have the same problem only in the perspective view but the "Show Selection Highlighting" option is checked but greyed out.
Message 4 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I had the same issue. I was using 2011 and Viewport 2.0. When I switched off 2.0 it seemed to work like usual. Strange, huh?
Message 5 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

JUST SIMPLY CLICK "B" ON YOUR KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR SOFT SELECTION IS ON!!!!!!!!!

 

XD

 

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!

Message 6 of 11
simonowen100
in reply to: Anonymous

You're wrong. Even in soft selection mode maya usually highlights your selections.

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Anonymous
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

This was driving me crazy. I am not sure if this will fix your problems, but it fixed my issue. Renderer - Veiwport 2.0 options - Turn off Ambient Occlusion. For some reason it wont show selected faces while on. Hope this helps someone. 

Message 9 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I had the exact same problem and when I hit B nothing was happening, but then I hit it multiple times and it worked, its nearly like it had to cycle through something, it wasn't working straight away but I hit B a couple more times and it was working then.

Message 10 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

the magic B!!!!

Message 11 of 11
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

One additional thing. The Viewport "Show" menu option has a "Selection Highlighting" checkbox. Make sure this is checked.

 

If that still doesn't work, choose "All" in that same menu and try again. And this is a 'per file' option.

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