Yea, actaully mine is set to black background and green grid How to change colors in Maya by Josh LaRoe Ok so you want to know how to change your colors in maya do you? Ok so first we will change the colors of the background and grid to make them contrast, so you can still see the grid when modeling, which will help if they are form totaly different sides of the spectrum [ie=black/green]. Open: Windows>Prefrences>Colors Here is where the items that you may want to change: 3D Views background User defined Not really sure what these change Ghosts Is if you turn ghosting on in the display menu HUD Is the heads up display Animation The colors for animation tools. Animation Editors Editors in the animation menu Multilister Changes the colors in the multilister Render view Changes the colors in the render view Hypershade/Hypergraph Changes the colors in the hypershade/hypergraph. Outliner Changes the outliner colors. Trax Editor Changes the colors in the Trax Editor To change the color of the grid go to: Display>Grid [] option box. This is where you can change the colors for that along with all of the atributes associated with the grid. Let me know if you need any help. Hope this helps...