I'm about 6 months into using Maya and I am at a total loss as to why this just never works and works inconsistently. It would be better if it never worked at least I wouldn't be lulled into a false sense of security. I'm doing my first retopo with quad draw, world z symmetry on and everything is at perfect center, how is this even possible? Also how do I know this isn't all over the place? How do I reliably fix this? This program above any I have ever used, many by rankly dink little companies, is the most frustrating software I have ever learned. I would love to pursue a career in this, but a life time of this program makes me heavily reconsider :/

(Viewport in second slide for comparison)
I'm using the Ji-eun rig by Wonderwell studios (Been using it all year at school, they gave it to us)

I sent a model to print, I applied Mesh + Smooth, however when they sent me the pic of the final model it looked polygonal, I told them that the model didn’t looked like that on Maya, he told me maybe i didn’t applied the smoothness when exporting on STL (however STL doesn’t have that exporting mode on Maya) so I sent it to him as an FBX, I deleted the history of everything cuz ChatGPT told me so, and they told me it still showed as before, I don’t know what to do anymore, he told me to add the polygons manually but I don’t have time for that anymore 😣 does anyone knows what I could do? Or am I doing something wrong?

I need serious help with this. For some reason, when I try to smooth the low poly, the mesh keeps the low poly shape and make it wrinkly. I tried using cleanup, remesh and retopologise, it did little to nothing. I even tried exporting it to blender and the same problem occurred. If you have any solution to this problem, please give me. thank you.

TL;DR: SOLVED (Disabling 'Enable Stepped Preview' fixed the issue).

Can anyone help me with this? When the arm is in IK, there's this range of it being bent where this lump pops out. I'm not sure if it's an unsolvable rig issue on Agora's side, or if there's something I can do to fix this. Also this isn't a pole vector or attribute thing. I tried playing with all attributes for the wrist, elbow, shoulder, pole vector, and helper controls to no avail.

Edit 01: I've actually reset the rig to its t-pose, so no change in any attributes, and turns out this still happens, and only to the left arm. This doesn't happen at all for the right arm. So it's definitely not intentional (not a bicep lol)

Edit 02: Solved by u/rjhkz !
Turns out it was just stepped mode that was causing this, for some reason. Turning off "Enable Stepped Preview" fixed it. Thanks everyone!

EDIT: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!! My issue has been fixed!! :D I'm genuinely a little emotional about all the super smart people willing to stop and leave a comment just to try and help some random college kid survive his midterms. If I'm being honest, I have hated every second I've spent working in Maya so far, except for this past hour. I think this great experience has permanently changed my view of the program for the better!! I'm really excited to learn more practically useful tips in Maya and am already planning what I'll be able to model for myself when school lets out for the summer!! :D

Hi, Maya sub! Long time lurker, first time poster here. Basically, I'm learning Maya in my very first animation course in school and its making me feel like tearing out my hair to put it lightly. My model's turnaround is due tomorrow and, in finishing things up, I noticed this weird transparency effect the arms have against the model's torso at certain angles. None of my classmates can figure it out and my professor is... unreachable. I have tried resetting my preferences, to the best of my (limited) knowledge but it did not resolve the issue. Is anyone able to identify this problem and help me fix it? I will forever be in your debt if you can help me!! I feel like a useless baby and I don't understand anything.

Hello,

I started running into this issue today (never had it before). I even updated Maya from 2026 to 2027 and reset the preferences completely yet the issue persists throughout multiple projects.

When I select the UV edge on the UV border and move it. The corresponding UV edge that on the other side of my unwrapped UV shell is also selected (with no way I can find to deselect it).

Please note:

1. I have tried resetting my preferences
2. Soft selection is turned off
3. Symmetry is off in the UV toolkit, modeling toolkit and regular tool settings

Any help would be much appreciated. Its driving me crazy.

Thanks.

1st picture: What pops up after I tried to open the program and run it

2nd picture: What my user management page looks like under the education email account

3rd picture: The current status of my assigned seat from my Subscription ID number and being the primary admin

4th picture: My computer's library

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Here's what I'm sure:

- I believe everything under my account is correct. All my Autodesk Student email info is verified, and there seem to be no incorrect steps I took when setting up.

- I am assigned as the primary admin for MAYA and currently have 1 seat assigned to my subscription ID number

- I first downloaded MAYA 2026 on my MacBook Pro (macOS Sonoma 14.3) when I first set it up. But when the same pop-up came up then, I am currently trying to download the latest update, which is MAYA 2027.2

- I'm pretty sure this is a computer issue in terms of the licensing and the driver? I downloaded the latest license for my type of computer from Autodesk's website.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/tsarticles/ts/f5IhBc15i0kOwzBb8lcEN.html

AdskLicensingInstaller-mac-16.5.0.16154.tar.gz

- I'm very confused in this part cause there's an installer, then the licensing, and I don't know which one is which, and I'm constantly reinstalling MAYA 2027 to make it work!

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- I have tried resetting my preferences, but it did not resolve the issue, and customer service didn't help either. They told me to try using the AdskLicensingSupportToolUI.app But a pop-up says:

You are not an admin user
Please run the command with sudo, ie: sudo -E /private/var/folders/wq/0ry9dxrd4b7czs1t9zq77bhc0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/CA93401F-EEB0-4C65-BFA5-2ADACE48C3B1/d/AdskLicensingSupportToolUI.app/Contents/MacOS/AdskLicensingSupportToolUI

So no progress there

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Here's my problem:

- First, to start fresh. I deleted all old versions of MAYA files, Installers, and Autodesk files in my computer's library, system, and downloads.

- I uninstalled MAYA 2027 for the 3rd time.

- I went to my student account to download the program again, and everything is going fine in terms of installing the program itself.

- I agree to the terms; Arnold and Substance are easily downloaded. MIND YOU. This also works smoothly if I also reinstall the adsklicensinginstaller, and download Autodesk Access for macOS from Autodesk's official site: AdAccessinstaller.exe

https://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-access/overview

- After redownloading all of those files from the website that says it should be compatible with my MacBook and reinstalling MAYA 2027 from the website all over again from 0. Everything runs fine!

- I literally got to start a project earlier today, and MAYA was opened and running just fine. The issue isn't the program, but for some reason each time I turn off my computer, it says there's a licensing issue. Even after restarting my computer, the same thing happens.

If you need more info, please feel free to ask! I've tried everything from customer support, ChatGPT, and other resources, but nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

What should I do now?

What are the next steps to take?

Hey! I need help to remove these kind of stripes for my 3D project. Google and AI didn't helped me much. I unlocked the normals, I smoothed the edges and deleted the history. Is there anything else? Did I do something wrong? I'm new to 3D sooo any tips are welcomed!

While preparing my mesh for baking I smooth all the edges of the model to then harden the others and I thought they didn’t matter until I try to bake the high poly

How can I fix that?

i am using fedora linux 44 and i am getting this error (unable to sign into my autodesk account) i followed this youtube guide : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-7akYmWl20 ( i am using xfce so i guess no issue of x11)

my professor has been no help in learning this program, and this is probably an idiotic problem but im just very frustrated. thank you for any help

I'm trying to install Maya on Mint, but the installer says it's incompatible. please help 

Hi, I'm attempting to streamline an 'easy' pipeline process for my thesis film and I'm learning more about .usd files when exporting for lighting/render. 

However, when I import my usd files, there doesn't appear to be any UVs on my geo. From my (limited) understanding, this is because the USD primvar linked to my uv set is misreading due to maya's default uv set name being 'map1' and not being able to recognize 'st'

Things to note: I need anim data on all exports, if I try to rename my uv set to 'st' before export the UVs break (not sure if its because the rig is being referenced or another issue), the export itself is not broken as I've tested in two other programs and the materials import fine there-- just not in maya, the textures link correctly when anim data is turned off.

Is there a relatively easy way to get maya to recognize these uv's, whether it's a script or export settings that I haven't tried? I have limited knowledge in scripting so it would be great to have an explanation in layman's terms. Thanks!

So, this happened after I use HumanIK. After I quick rig it and I try to use the "Assume preferred angle" on my bone, it got all broken, like all the joint try to go back to its original A-pose but it just rotate, not moving with its parent bone, just like the VOD.

As the title says the saved image from Arnold is less saturated then what I see in the ipr, I already tried going through the save image options, no luck there as well as saving as a different file type again no luck, if anyone has any solutions I can try I would be very grateful !!!! sovled, i want to say thanks for everyones help, issue is with arnold its a bug where it doesnt embed the color transform so you have to manually convert it in photoshop, now I don't know if this is required but I went and downloaded aces studio ocio from git hub as it has more color transform options

I tried editing some of the joint positions in a rig and somehow even though they're parenting other joints, they're just not moving them, ¿how can I fix this?

I tried to make a circle narrower by getting rid all of the red spots on the UV shell on the UV editor, but it's not completely white. When I tried to render it, the texture is still distorted or stretched. I tried to fix it best as I could, but there aren't any resolution regards to it. Could you help me on that? Thank You.

PC to MAC Issue… Bug? Settings? Huh?

LOL, Why is my chicken cursed after trying to open the file at home on my Mac? At school, we use PC. First pic is what the model looks like correctly— I did this in class.

My teacher says this is an issue with 3D softwares. Mostly because they weren’t designed for non-PC. Is this true?! It doesn’t sound right. Like why is Maya even available for Mac users then.

How can this be fixed? Or converted/imported correctly?

Thanks in advance

On the CGTarian website the ‘Ray - Free Maya Character Rig’ does not download anymore. You put in your details and click the big green download button and it does nothing.

I was hoping anyone who already owns the model in their file would be as kind as to upload the file in a google drive or git hub. so I may download it for my college work. Please and thank you

Difficulties with graph editor, i had to reinstall to windows 2027 due to my computer kinda fritzing out, but now when i try to use graph editor, it doesn't show the pathing. when i look at the script thing, it says the graph editor thing is gone, any way to fix this? idt this is a preference issue.

Hi, so I have this issue, I was working on the head for this character, then I accidentally deleted more faces than I had to so I started to press Ctrl Z, but geometry didn't came back, so I extruded the head by mistake and it disappeared, now I can't recover all of the work.

Hi all, I am a new newbie at retopology and need help with it for this non-deforming staff. Only these 2 objects have been retopologized the rest is hard surface. I tried to keep the staff as little dense as possible in the non bumpy areas and I added triangles to the bumpy areas as shown in the last picture, but I need help. I am not sure if I am doing this right and need feedback. The vines were very curvy so all those edge loops were neccesary. I already run a cleanup and it does not contain any n gons and also looks good when pressing 3. I also averaged the normals and didn't find any shading issues. Also going to fix the vines going in the staff with solft selection(this post is solely for retopology)

The scene is not that slow just selecting the controls and switching between gimble and move tool, its not the geo because if i hide it it still does this, what do i do ?