You have “Reflection” turned on for the select tool. The easiest way I know to manage that setting is to double-click on the first icon in a column on the left edge of your Maya Screen, the one that looks like a mouse cursor. That will open the settings panel for Select.

Below the Soft Select settings section is one for Reflection Settings, and there is a checkbox in there to turn reflection off.

<* Wes *>

Maya 2011 in general is nice! Especially nice is the hammering and vertex weight copy tools. Overall, the skinning workflow is extremely well done!

However; Whoever over at Autodesk that decided that a special interface for handling files that overrides the system default should perhaps be demoted.

You’ve spent time developing a feature that constantly hampers my effectiveness. Just now I accidentally destroyed some data due to saving to the wrong file. This particular error was that I copy-pasted a folder path from explorer, and then it saved to the folder as a file, which happened to be another file.

Now this particular error is to be honest quite un-instersting, the problem is that the whole paradigm of attempting to solve a problem that the operating system already have solved is suboptimal. In the best-case-scenario you will still not have solved any problem. In reality, you’re just duplicating the amount of bugs. (OS + Program).

Just started teaching Maya 2011 on OS X at local college.
Maya 2011 is very buggy in that class-room.
I even tried the latest Hot Fix (v3?) and still no go :P
Anyone have tips on this?
I can get the specs next time but honestly dont know why its so buggy.
I have no control over the Mac Pro specs but can make recommendations.
I dont have the same probs at work running Maya 2012 Demo on 12core Mac Pro.

Maya 2012 is not a good version until we put into consideration some the other packages such as Hotfix 4. With hotfix 4 being installed upon, I say Maya 2012 is a good jump by Autodesk, adding procedual textures, as well some bug recovery which ease out the process of working, but the Texture and Shaded-Mode display still are tangled up in a long strain of problems. The hardware connection seems to be too fragile to rely on, and one has to make sure to support himself with a workstation-quality VGA.

Hey,
i have a problem when trying to install maya 2012 for Mac os x and i have the latest version 10.7.1
when i try to install it, it says that i need a older version of my os… really need help!
Thanks,
Chriskaar

Hi, I have maya 2012 x64bit won windows 7, I am a beginner to maya 2012 I want to start a project walk through animation/fly through animation for a city, which is the best measurement scale in this in cm/meter/foot I am too confuse and some rendering with big scale problem facing so i need help if some one.
thanks in advance.
thanks

I’m not sure if it’s a bug issue that has been updated with the service pack which i am now downloading because i am just getting so frustrated when working on a project, which by no means in a data heavy complex scene. It’s just really two 2 story buildings with office furniture. I have textures for the buildings and am mostly using mia x materials for mental ray for when i start rending a walk through of the interiors. Anyway i very often deal with the program just locking up on me when i want to change to vertex mode, toggle back n forth between wireframe/shaded modes, sometimes when i apply a color to a certain face. i had thought it was the build up of history that would cause it but ive been keeping that clear as possible and yet i still periodically get that major lag. At time ill will just terminate maya via the task manager. Any ideas of why this occurs ? Has anyone else had this issue of unusual lag/unresponsive wait times ?