Maya camera problem

July 6, 2009

ok so what i was trying to do was supposed to be easy. set up a scene with a foot grid (each square is a square ft) and try to make a room that is 100 by 150ft. for the most part it worked fine until i started to not see my tool.

But when i selected another part i could see it

So i almost pulled my hair out trying to figure it out. i played with the clip planes like crazy and nothing worked. until i found the solution

My camera happened to be within my geometry. it was soo simple and yet i stressed over it soo much. so what i did was do to Display > Show > Cameras and saw this.

After that all you really have to do is select the camera (which is the green square, that looks like a light) move it far enough away to where it is out of the way.