Maya 11 Missing Buttons

[FlawlessHappiness]

Hello guys.

So i'm using Maya 11 (Just started)
And i am missing some buttons that i see other people have.




What do i do to get them?

I have 2 white buttons... there should be 5

[The chaser]

I'm pretty sure the thing is that those buttons are somewhere else than there. Maya is really confusing some times :$

[FlawlessHappiness]

Where could they be?

[The chaser]

Display and Window are the only ones where by what I know those damn buttons could be. Sorry for this ignorance

Edit: Have you tried the view, panels in the model displayer? (The grid and all of that)

[FlawlessHappiness]

Not sure what you mean by that.

[The chaser]

There's the perpective view. At the top of that view, there are several things: View, shading, etc.

At the top of the program there is display and window. Perhaps there's the thing.

[FlawlessHappiness]

Hmm... Theres a lot of stuff under window and display. I'm not sure what i'm looking for.
Do you think it will make a big difference that i don't have them?

[The chaser]

Wait a second, I have 6 views. There isn't any scrolling bar in there?

Plus, this may help you:

http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/ADS...w_2011.png

The views (that you can't see) are:

Persp/Outliner
Persp/Graph
Hypershade/Persp
Persp/Graph/Hypergraph

[FlawlessHappiness]

Nope no scrolling bar.. THanks for the image... Don't know if it will help, but i'll just move on with the tutorials then.


EDIT: Can somebody tell me why i somehow sometimes cannot select any model i've made. cube or sphere, when i click it, nothing happens

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Those buttons aren't that important... (although I have to admit I don't know how to make them reappear either ^^) They're just shortcuts to different viewport layouts. You can also access all viewport layouts by clicking on "panel" in the little bar right above your viewport.
Looking at your screenshots, the problem might simply be your screen resolution - Maya doesn't have enough space to display all buttons so it cuts some away...?

EDIT: Can somebody tell me why i somehow sometimes cannot select any model i've made. cube or sphere, when i click it, nothing happens

a) They could be on a locked layer. Check the display layer window under your channel box. If a layer there has a little "R" or "T" next to it it is locked as a reference. Click on the letter until it disappears to unlock the layer.

b) You might be in sub objectmode. F8 toggles between object mode (selects objects) and subobject mode (selects faces, vertices and the like).

c) Maya can make certain types of objects unselectable to help with cluttered scenes. You may have accidentally deactivated the selection of polygon objects there. Check the little buttons above your shelf:
http://s8.postimage.org/ls0ia56c3/mayabuttons.jpg

d) If nothing else helps, see if you can select the object in the outliner instead. (windows> outliner)

Last but not least: Whenever Maya is acting strangely, it often helps to delete the userprefs - file. It can usually be found under User/Yourname/Documents/Maya/2011-x64/prefs.
That file gets easily corrupted and can cause all sorts of weird behaviour if it is. Deleting or moving it will cause Maya to create a new one, basically resetting the program to its pristine state.