maya 2023 standard surface presets not showing up

[n.ziyadah]

Hi, 

I'm having an issue with Maya 2023 where I can't find any standard surface presets. They are just not showing up at all. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Maya but nothing works. I'm quite new to Maya so I'm not sure what else to do. I've checked my program files and all the presets are there just not showing up in the actual software.

[Christoph_Schaedl]

Have you installed Maya 2023.2 ?

[n.ziyadah]

,

[n.ziyadah]

Yes.

[Stephen.Blair]

So the presets are in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2023\presets\attrPresets\standardSurface ?

Where is maya looking? You can use Process Monitor to find out.

If the files are actually where they should be, it could be something with your environment or preferences. I assume you already reset your prefs?

What if you add the standardSurface preset path to MAYA_PRESET_PATH?
It should be necessary though. You can see from the MAYA_PRESET_PATH on my machine, where I do see the standardSurface presets:

// MAYA_PRESET_PATH=;
D:/programs/autodesk/Maya2023/plug-ins/ATF/presets;
C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Bifrost/Maya2023/2.4.0.0/bifrost/presets;
C:/Program Files/Common Files/Autodesk/ApplicationPlugins/bifrost/Contents/presets;
D:/programs/autodesk/Maya2023/plug-ins/MASH/presets;
C:/Program Files/Autodesk/MayaUSD/Maya2023/0.16.0/mayausd/MayaUSD/plugin/adsk/presets;
D:/programs/autodesk/Maya2023/plug-ins/fbx/presets;
D:/programs/autodesk/Maya2023/plug-ins/camd/presets;
C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Arnold/maya2023/presets;
C:/Program Files/Allegorithmic/Adobe Substance 3D for Maya/2023/presets;
D:/programs/autodesk/Maya2023/plug-ins/sweep/presets;
C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Bifrost/Maya2023/2.4.0.0/vnn/presets;
D:/programs/autodesk/Maya2023/plug-ins/xgen/presets;

The above is the taken from the output of the MEL command system( "set" )