Maya 2015 not displaying text in outliner and editors

[Anonymous]

Hello, Everyone!

I am currently attending school for animation. I have a ginormous 4K monitor, and the text was waaaaaay too small for me to see on the UI of Maya 2015. So, I looked up a tutorial on how to change that. Well, I was successful with changing the font size via MayaStrings. However, now the text in the outliners and graph editors aren't showing any text at all! They just show the little icons next to it. I don't want to change the font back to that teensy tiny mico font! If anyone could please help, that would be great!! I am on a PC running Windows 10. Also, I jacked the font sizes to 20 point, because anything else was hard to see.

Thanks!

-Jessie

[mspeer]

Hi!

Maya 2015 is not optimized for high resolution screens and Windows 10.

Since Maya 2016 there is "Interface Scaling" in the preferences, so updating Maya may be the only solution for you (or using a lower resolution for your display).

[Anonymous]

Hello!

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, this is the version that we are using in classes. I know that they have told me that I can't switch between versions, because it may cause conflicts with projects. I suppose that I will just have to change the program back to what it was. I'm surprised that there isn't a fix for it. The tutorials that I was watching had folks doing that with versions older than mine!

Thank you,

-Jessie

[Anonymous]

Hey Everyone

I am using Maya 2018

I had the same Issue.
Didn't find the fix.

I tried changing fonts with that tutorial u mentioned too. Then there are nothing shown in the outliner. But heres the Fix after working on it 45 mins.

Find this in Maya Strings:

Lucida Grande"
s_TschemeResourcesFlatUI.rPlainLabelFont_nix = "11,0,0,0,0,0,Arial"
s_TschemeResourcesFlatUI.rPlainLabelFont_win_en_US = "14

PlainLabelFont CANT EXCEED 14. If you put 15, the outliner disappeared.

Stay 14 u will be fine.

But for me the fonts are not big enough, at least now i can see the outliner. It's kind of a trade off.

For now, i hope Autodesk fix this soon.