controllers stop working properbly after keying

[Anonymous]

hello everyone

im very new to maya and rigging. I tried to create my own rig for a horse and when it finally worked fine I started with the first pose of my runcycle.

All controllers worked the way they were supposed to but as soon as i keyed them the tail and upper head controllers seemed to have lost their parent connection and when i rotate the tail controllers the have no influence on the rig anymore... i think the other controllers are still working.

the tail is a spline ik but the head controllers are normal point constaints, so i have no idea whats the reason for this.

im sorry if this is a beginnersmistake or was already solved somewhere but i searched for it and didnt find an entry that matches my situation.

[mspeer]

Hi!

Try switching Evaluation Mode ("Parallel" vs "DG") in Preferences.

For further help please upload a scene-file.

[Anonymous]

Hey

thank you for your reply. I tried it but still had the same problem

unfortunately i dont know how to upload it here because i cant put it in an attatchment...
is this link ok?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rh1mgna3O0uf5IFkguopF_MwtwZALbY1/view

[tdHendrix]

Hi, I wasn't able to open the .mb file. Are you able to save as Maya Ascii instead (.ma)?

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Attributes can only have one Input (manual controlled by keys or automatically by expressions/constraints).

As soon as you create a key a pairBlend node will be created to combine the values set by keys and those from constraints. This pairBlend has a Weight value which is controlled by the keyed node and blends between different Inputs.

Example:

1. Rotate tail_ctrl_2, then

2. tail_ctrl_3, Attribute "Blend Nurbs Circle 5parent 1" set to "1".

3. Rotate tail_ctrl_2 again

[Anonymous]

ah I see thank you 🙂
i will try to fix this