topic Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019 in Maya Animation and Rigging Forum

Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

noah1211football — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 18:38:34 GMT

Hello, I am having a hell of a time trying to get any recordattr script to work in Maya 2019 for the recording of live keyframes. There is a great script https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/record-attributes-ui-for-maya that works perfectly fine in maya 2018 but not 2019. Any suggestions on how to get the script to work in the new version or another way to achieve the same results?

Think this would be useful to a lot of people, the script is amazing if it can work

Thanks,

Noah

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

syracoj — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:06:27 GMT

we unfortunately do not debug other community based scripts that may be on other websites (such as highend)

but, we can offer assistance in the use of one of our commands.

The recordAttr is a command that can be run on a selected object. How it operates is it creates as many record nodes on the object as there are attributes specified.

so if you have a sphere selected and you run in the script editor:

recordAttr -at "translateX" -at "translateY" -at "translateZ";

Then 3 record nodes will have been connected upstream from the pSphere1 (transform) node (from each channel: translate X, Y, Z, the record nodes target). You will see these record nodes stacked in the channel box as well.

From here, you can invoke the move tool (since we are dealing with translation) and press the Interactive Play button which can be found in the "FX" shelf. It's the last button on the shelf. It looks like a Play triangle with Bubbling circles behind it.

When you press this to play, you can move that sphere around with the engaged move tool and it will record that movement for the span of play that is captured. Once it finishes it will create fcurves and keyframes that recorded the movement of the object.

Hope this helps.

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

noah1211football — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:39:55 GMT

I tried this technique and it did not work. I'm thinking recordAttr might
have been changed or something for Maya 2019

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

syracoj — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:44:59 GMT

should work. I performed the very same actions in a 2019 update build I described above as I wrote back to you and it worked.

What Viewport are you in? Are you in a DX11 viewport? Or is everything vanilla Maya.

Have you turned off Evaluation Manager in the Maya preferences?

Maya Preferences: Settings > Animation category. Evaluation mode should be set to Parallel.

Do you have auto keyframe on?

Anything returned to you in the script editor when you try?

Can you do a screen recording and show me what is occurring on your end?

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

syracoj — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:52:06 GMT

I apologize. I accidentally launched the wrong version of Maya. Yes, I can see now it is inop in 2019. Let me dig a bit further.

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

noah1211football — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:53:22 GMT

I am using viewport 2.0 Evaluation mode is set to parallel. When I run the script I get nothing back. I tried the technique in the attached video with and without autokey frame on and still couldn't get it to work 😕 perhaps the video will clear things up

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

syracoj — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:09:24 GMT

noah1211football,

I checked our defect backlog and can see that it is an issue the Maya development team is aware of. Unfortunately it is still going to be a problem and as far as I can tell there isn't an evident workaround. In the meantime though I will try to stress for a quicker fix and will ask a few around here if they know of any potential workaround.

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

noah1211football — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:10:00 GMT

Okay, thanks for looking. This is a super useful feature so I hope it is able to work

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

spacedmann — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:34:59 GMT

Are there any updates for a solution to this?

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

mspeer — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:49:21 GMT

Hi!

This is fixed since Maya 2020.2 .

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

Yoel_PL — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:09:57 GMT

Is there any reason why the recordAttr doesnt work the same way for rotation?
Im trying the following mel:

recordAttr -at "tx" -at "ty" -at "tz" -at "rx" -at "ry" -at "rz";

Im trying to run an Interactive Playback to record some animation. The position keyframes work perfectly, but nothing gets stored on the rotation keyframes.
The "record" node gets create for all the attributes, but keyframes are only recorded on the Translaxe X, Y and Z, none on the rotation.

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

cliuzzi9SLEJ — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:33:26 GMT

very interesting that our esteemed company reps here only mention translates then call it a day.
if you notice looking closely at the connections that recordAttr creates on any node with rotations, the wires are purple..meaning no numeric values are being sent thru

ran multiple tests and everything except rotations will allow the setting of keyframes

manual movement works for translate and any user added attributes, rotate remains unkeyed.

I even tried grabbing one of the other nodes and connecting it, wire turned purple
Can we at least get a reason for this? Give me some advanced math jargon to help me finally give up on this.

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

syracoj — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:17:21 GMT

I went back to 2018 version of Maya and can see that rotation attributes do not get captured there either. I have reached out to dev asking if there is support for it. I would imagine there should be since rotation is an attribute. Will see what they say after they take a peek at the code. I tried scale and that seems to get captured.

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

syracoj — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:21:26 GMT

It has either never been implemented for rotation (seems unlikely IMO) or there is a long standing defect here. Waiting on a response from dev.
Regarding the purple wires... I believe the purple wires do not mean there is no values being passed through but rather there is an auxiliary node that is hidden between the connection. In the case of a rotation it should be a unit conversion node. To see this go to the node editor and in the Display menu drop down check on 'Unit Conversion Nodes' Select the transform node and re-Load input and output connections and you should then see the purple wire go away and the unit conversion node between the connection.

With rotation the unit conversions are there and are connected to the record nodes but the fcurve nodes holding rotation are not created. This may be the bug.

More to follow later.

Re: Recording Live Keyframes Using recordattr maya 2019

syracoj — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:49:12 GMT

I've created defect ticket MAYA-142403 on your behalf to track/log this issue.