Render view all grey

[Anonymous]

I am new to Maya and trying to learn. In the beginning I didn't have any problems with the rendering but now when I try to render the render view pops up but there is nothing there. It is all grey. What am I doing wrong? 

[mspeer]

Hi!

Maybe you just opened the Render View?

Try rendering after opening Render View.

If this doesn't work,

try a reset of your preferences.
Rename the folder prefs in folder 2018 to something like prefs_backup, or to reset everything, the folder 2018 to 2018_backup. Maya creates new folders. Detailed at:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Reset-May...