Well, it showed all the telltale signs of a crash, like the cursor being frozen as an hourglass when hovering over it. But I guess maybe it was my mistake.

Either way, thanks for the tip about the preferences. I'm going to try a reinstall of Maya, after saving my projects somewhere else and deleting the My Documents folder. Couldn't hurt.

And thanks a bunch for the Disney's Dynamica information! That sounds awesome.

Here are the links for anybody else who is curious:
https://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...light=dynamica
https://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/wordpress/