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Help! Moving keys with the stats box causes Error: Cannot move keys

exsulator
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Help! Moving keys with the stats box causes Error: Cannot move keys

exsulator
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I have a ton of frames in a 20 sec animation. Now I need a little more space somewhere in the middle, and I select all frames after this point in time and move them. This freezes maya. Or it simply takes so long, and I haven't waited long enough. Too much for my computer 😞

 

I decide to write +=10 in the stats box in graph editor. I figure it costs less to move frames directly, because scrubbing the timeline while all keys are selected is ridiculously performance heavy


That's when I get the error. Error: line 1: Cannot move keys

 

But using math in the stats box works on simple cubes and stuff when I test it. So I don't understand why it errors out for me...

 

and frankly... WHY, MAYA? Why is it so incredibly difficult for you to just move tons of frames forward or backwards? Even if they're many, it's not like the animation changes so what are you working on, maya? It's just a timestamp, isn't it? Why does it eat performance?

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soyoonah5295
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Hi there,
I'm also in a same problem with u.

Sometimes it works but sometimes doesn't. 😢

 

This is the picture that  WORKS AGAIN..(=I cannot get the error pic.)

But I have still no idea what causes the error.

If you get the answer May i ask u the solution ?

 

 

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exsulator
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Sorry I forgot, this was 4 years ago 😞

 

Hope someone may give you the solution

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