Maya is not mirroring joints correctly

[puchis5573]

So I´ve been trying to mirror my leg, but for some reason it is mirroring weird. 

The knee is too high and the foot is flipped. I don´t know if it is a mistake I made or if it is maya, I´m a student.

I will appreciate your help, thank you.

[Kahylan]

Hi!

Mirroring joints can be a bit unreliable at times, most of the times the problems are caused by the hierarchy above the joints or by their incoming connections.

To eliminate these problems do the following:

1) Duplicate the Leg joints

2) Unparent the duplicate (Shift+P)

3) Create a joint a world origin

4) Parent the duplicate under the new joint

5) Select the new joint and run the mirror joint command

I hope this helps!

[puchis5573]

I tried your advice, but it stills doing the same thing 😞

[Kahylan]

Hmm, could you maybe upload the file as a zipped .ma so i can have a look at it?

[puchis5573]

Of course, thank you very much for the help TwT!!

Here is my document.

[Kahylan]

Sry I was away from my machine for a bit.

I took a look at your rig. What is causing the problem is that you have "locked"  and "non-keyable displayed" channels on your joints. Follow the workflow I described in my first comment, but before you do step 5), just select every joint one by one, open the channel control in the channelbox (Edit-> Channel Control) and move all the Translate, Rotate and Scale attributes in the "Keyable" and "Non Locked" column.

This should allow you to mirror your joints properly.

I hope this helps!