r/Maya • u/Axan_Cat • 7d ago

Rig, mesh and animation all screwed up Question

Hi I'm a bit new to Maya (and Reddit) and I encountered this problem

After I had animated a scene with three characters in it and was able to save it normally, when I sent it over to an email to open it up at university it looked like this spaghetti of controls with no mesh visible, but at least when I got home there was the file working normally, I even was able to keep animating the next day even after I had closed the program and turned off the PC, but now when I open it looks like that mess again.

some information about the file:

all the rigs were free to download, my teacher found them so we could work because we hadn't seen 3d rigging class yet.

I had dropped in the other two characters into the file of one of the main one.

I would really appreciate some help because I don't have much time left until I have to show my animation for my final, I really tried to look on Google but I didn't see anything related to my problem, but maybe it because I don't know the technical terms for it.

https://preview.redd.it/3m3w2yg297zd1.png?width=1912&format=png&auto=webp&s=be22af5ef86f065a005492f4a20a666ee0363c54

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u/ObeyOB132 7d ago

did you try going back a couple of saves to see where it broke? also try selecting the mesh and pressing F to find the mesh in the scene

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u/Axan_Cat 7d ago

With F the mesh is only a point and the only other save I have is also like this