Character model wont show

[swarmedia83]

Hey all. Ive been having this nagging issue in maya where i would open a scene with a model and the body of the character would have completely vanished (if theres accessories theyll stay). Funny thing is the file in question was opening fine in class on friday, but as i tried to open it now all that shows are the joint/skeleton and accessories.

I originally thought this only happened to my file which i created months ago. Now its happened to the scene my professor gave me to finish a painting weights assignment. I can see the rig, and like i said the accessories (which is a two piece swim suit and high heals). They are in layers, but i made sure they were on and thats not the problem

Has anyone else had a similar issue? if so how can i get around this? my assignment is due on tuesday! I emailed my professor, but im not sure when hell respond

[Scythe]

Have you tried looking if your layers a correctly set up ? or maybe your shader is set in a way it won't show your model (just speculating)

Have you looked at your polycount to see if the model is indeed in the scene but not showing, or instead it doesn't exist at all ?

[GameGenie]

Maybe it's there, but the scale is either too big or too small. That'd make it seem invisible.

Could be that a bunch of the normals got reversed too. With backface culling on, that could make it kinda invisible too.

Or, a material could be on it that's all messed up and it's being displayed as invisible.

Does it open on somebody else's copy of Maya? It could be the installation that's corrupt, not the model.

I don't know. These things go all crazy once in a while. Not many apps are stable all of the time.

[swarmedia83]

The application isnt corrupt. i tried uninstalling and reinstalling before. Its happened primarily at home, but happened on one occasion in the school computers. It seems to be random and happened only one projects that have layers (i think). Im not too keen on some of the more technical aspects of maya so im not sure how to check if the polygon count is right or about normals, but i did check the outliner and it does show the geometry of the character body exists, but i cant see it...

[Scythe]

then you surely have to check the backfacing, maybe it's causing some troubles. As well as looking into your hypershade to see if your material aren't flunky and making it invisible

[GameGenie]

I thought about that backfacing one too, but it occurred to me that the model might just appear inside out if that were the case.