i had a scene which crashed on me when i switched to high quality rendering and it saved it in the temp directory. how can i load this file back into maya without it crashing again?

thanks

have to remember to SAVE SAVE SAVE

edit: while i am here,

i am trying to put some incandescent textures over a SSS shader how would you do that? i tried a layered texture but i get weird results, and a transparent lambert with a texture mapped to the incandescent channel plugged into the diffuse colour on the SSS but the incandescent effect gets subdued cheers

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Make sure you have single view with everything that makes the scene harder to display as as possible turned off. No shading, not textures, just one view. In the settings, Interface : UI Elements : Panel Configuration, turn off Restore saved Layouts from file. Then reload the scene.

One question per posts is a really good idea.

thanks for the tip..

i tried what you suggested but it still crashes, does the high quality rendering setting come under the “save/restore panels layout” configuration? as this is the culprit or is there a way to make the file re load in the default quality rendering drop down.

thanks

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a whoosh and twinkle is better than a sizzle and splat

You can always use import in stead of open.