what is maya?

A multipurpose 3D design environment. Used mainly for 3D modelling, rigging, animating and rendering.

...*Eye twitch*

The programme I've been using all this time to make my 3D stuff...?

i hope you can fix it.

your better with maya than me thats all i can say

oh god no NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

;o; Nuuuuuuhhh...

Well that sure sucks on all levels, so the only solution to completely reinstall the entire computer now or what?

It would be cheaper if it was simple as a computer error. but it sounds like autodesk isn't accepting the license and i don't think that software is cheap. omg... i just looked it up is it really $185 a month!?!?!?

From what I understand, it does sound like that the old licence did not get properly deleted when he reinstalled the program. A full reinstall of the computer/operative system could possibly solve it. Tho that means he would have to extract everything that he wants to save over to a external harddrive.

I don't understand how reinstalling windows is going to fix it. If it's actually been paid for he should be able to manually install a new license after contacting tech support.

you could also delete the software's registry files to avoid reinstalling everything from 0.

https://45.media.tumblr.com/9baeb8e.....qi4go1_500.gif

;-;

That reinstall bullshit is why pirating exists for stuff like this. Microsoft did the same thing way back with XP as well.

The five stages of grief have started.I know that feeling. Can you contact customer support or your software is Arrr!'d ?

well that's fucking typical

I know it's not a popular option but torrents of Maya are EVERYWHERE. Pirate bay has em right now.

I know the feeling all too well o-o:

I slowly have the feeling technology starts to fuck everyone over. just you wait until terminator start to walk the earth. not the ones from the movies... just machines that troll us and make lour life inconvinient

as for problem solvinf I would try what was said before. call the customer service or..... cancel your membership and make a new one if that helps somehow

Man, software and software companies in general seem to be going down the shitter a bit lately >_>

Yeah, I'd use Blender more myself if the interface weren't so clunky.

Why not just make Blender look the way you want? Its all shelved and modular.

If it's flexible enough, I guess it would be worth a shot.

That's the big reason I hate Blender. After using Maya for so long, trying to get the hang of how Blender is set up for modelling is rage inducing. While the graphical interface is modular, the keyboard shortcuts are set in stone and that's the part that really needs to be changed.

Yes! That!

they can be set to work just like Maya shortcuts and the properties panel allows you to configure everything about Blender how you want. Literally just start the program and choose Maya/Blender/3dsMax in the drop down panel on the splash screen and everything will be just like those programs.

That must have been a feature added after I gave up with it. I may have to check it out again.

Also comes with an official pie menu system too in the addons section, its been in there now for a while, so defiantly give it another go :)

I'm really curious as to why you can't reinstall?

( be careful with your links, neither of them are working the way you pasted them '-' for the first one there's a ")" at the end of it, and the second is cut in 2 (Wi ndows)
not really willing to be a bother or anything, and I'm actually glad to see someone with a concrete solution, but I just couldn't help but notice that. As a fan of Benezia's work, thanks a lot, I do hope it will provides her some help '-' )

Yup I need to start making tutorials on this crap :3 I'm the blender man

I hope it won't have to come to that

Time to get an illegal copy.... fuck off restrictions

I used Maya for a short time but whenever I would do something that would require some computer power it would literally crash my display driver and in some cases blue screen. Can you uninstall everything and then re-install?? Usually I found that when they update their stuff it
Bugs out big time

If this is a legitimate copy and not a "Yarrr!" version, I dont see why you cant call the tech support and get a new license key to get it up and kicking. Note being able to reinstall software seems like a bit of a issue on the developers behalf.

considering how expensive Autodesks softwares are, that's kind of unacceptable...

Much like Comcast.

Piracy's not stealing if you own it.

One of the many reasons I went for 3DSM over Maya.
The base code is just...terrible.

Oldie but goodie. Apt for Maya as well: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/07/28

Whelp, time to move to Blender... This is exactly why I dumped Maya as soon as I didn't have to use it anymore, this and the yearly update process.

No factory default option that could fix that?

damn it.

Join us down here where its warm, Come to Blender we have cookies....

I'll second what the others were saying: If you can manually locate and uninstall all of the related files, you won't have to reinstall Windows and you can do a fresh install of Maya.


Or pirate it until you can back up your files and get this problem sorted. yarrrr

I hope all of this crud gets solved soon for ya
best solution is to manually find your model files, put em somewhere safe and uninstall and reinstall the program's files
Get Blender
or... be a pirate.... ARRRR

I feel your pain man... I did a three year course in 3D Computer Animation that turned into a FOUR year course because of Maya and all I got out of that course was a nervous breakdown and a hatred for maya. The things that more annoying about it is that it pretty much put me off of 3D modelling altogether as when I did try to get back into 3D modelling again with maya I just couldn't bring myself to use it... and when I tried to use blender recently, I just couldn't get around the interface as despite it having a "maya" option... it just doesn't feel right.