Okay well, i installed the free Maya personal learning edition untill i can afford the real thing, and my "move, rotate, and scale tools do not let me left click them to activate that tool, its the same when i right click and hold it down for the quick menu, that doesnt show up either, what is going on can anyone help?

i have uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times, i have deleted all the pref files and still nothing

Not really sure to be honest mate.

It could be a graphics problem, whats your specs? Also do you have missing menus etc? As if you do I might lknow what it is.

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you dont have ctrl on perhaps? is it the mouse?

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arran3D

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My spec is, intel pent 4, 2.80Ghz, 2.00 gb of ram, and im not sure if im missing menus as im new to maya, so here is a screenshot, its maya 8.5

your screen looks fine. might be a dumb suggestion, but have you tried creating anything yet and selected it ? you're not just selecting the move tool and expecting something to happen?

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arran3D

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hehe im not a total noob to 3d modeling , but yeah i create a polygon box and then try to use the tools, but it doesn work, does it matter if im in compenant mode?

ha ha - sorry :blush: was worried you might be offended, but i make so many dumb mistakes!

yeah you need to be in object mode, but judging from your last screenshot you already are...

hmmm... i don't know,....i'm stumped at the moment. sorry. :headbang:

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arran3D

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its alright im not offended, just a bit mad because i trained for a year self teaching 3d max, now i go to college and we using maya, i dont mind but i cant even practice at home because my PLD doesnt even work propperly lol!

hi

maybe the version you download is faulty. why dont you try downloading an older version of the maya ple like maya 7 ple for instance,

i would but i have to get to grips with this version because its the one we use at college, so no point using an older version because it may not have some of the same options as 8.5 does. plus if this one is faulty then its a chance the other one could be.

Hi nexusfire,
Can you put up another screenshot, this time with an object in the view and with the object selected?

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Do you have your mouse set up right in the Maya prefs?

Does yours look like this?

BTW, this is a screen from Maya 2008, but the mouse settings should look the same.

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yeah here it is with an object


i found the prefs, here is a SS of it also:

You aren’t using a 3 click mouse, are you?

so on the last screen you posted up (with the cube in) you've either pressed the 4th icon down on the left or pressed the 'w' key right?

If it doesnt give you the move manipulators then it must be something like the gfx card or system. If you use an ATI card thenh knock off triple buffering in the open gl settings. If not then I'm not sure

Si

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