Scale, Move and Rotate tools are awry.
 

I have a problem with me scale, move and rotate tools. In my top and side views, the tips of my scale and move tools are gone and my rotate tool does not appear at all when I click on it.

An example of the problem.

(Move tool, and Scale tool example)

(There should be a tip here)
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Anyone know how to fix that?

Hit the - key to make the handles smaller.

No, I don't mean that. In my regular view, I can see the tips. In the top, side and....other side view, I can't see them.

Not sure then. Your original posting is confusing

"(There should be a tip here)
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Explain this more please. What am I looking at?

hehe, oops. That little thing is the scale/move tool. You know, when you select an abject and click on the move tool and the 3 way axis thing appears on the object so you can move it back and forth. If I knew how to take screenshots, I'd be able to post it here so you'd see.

Try hitting the insert key. Sounds like you're in pivot mode.

To screen capture, all you have to do is hold ALT->Then Prnt Scr, then go into any image editing software and press paste) that should do fine for the image capturing.


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(reply to mod) Oh, sorry.

Read this for more info:
http://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...&threadid=8939

what OS? There are some know bugs with OS X and 6.5 in this area.

Change your screen back to 32 BPP, and it should fix your problem.

try pressing insert

Hey, already said.

Sorry, Please forgive my ignorance, but what is BPP?

hmm
 

Try this - click on start, settings, control panel, display

now click on the settings tab up top

in the Color quality, see if you can change it to: Highest (32bit)

if you you have it set on 16bit, maya doesn't like it :)

Ah, okay I see what you mean. It was already set on 32 BPP and it wasn't showing up. Here's a screen capture. (Thanks for tip):D

Lol, it would help if I posted the pic. :D

Did you try reseting the tool options in the tool editor?

If you mean clicking window > Setting/Preferences > Tool Settings, then I already tried reset all of them. I still can't get them to show up. If I open a new file and stay in the Persp. view and then use all of the tools in only that window, then any other view I use (Top, Side) will only show part of the move and scale tool and none of the rotate tool.

Hmmmm, this sounds pretty abstract since no one here has been able to fix it. Maybe try emailing alias help or something if you cant get it fixed.

It still looks like you're in pivot mode. If pressing the insert key didnt do the trick, try deleting mayaprefs.

I still belive it's a display issue, (nothing wrong your maya settings)
have you tried updating your video card?