Maya Quick Rig: Character locked

[Dark__Night]

Hi

I have just rigged a character and saved it. I then attempted to repaint the skin weights. I adjusted the skin weights and suddenly the character wont move when i adjust any of the controls. So I quit and open up the character again. The old character, which took ages to rig, is no locked, the controls dont work. I'm on a bit of a deadline with this one....

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Maya 2019.3.1 windows

[Dark__Night]

Actually i think the panic is over... I had not updated the control rig after making an earlier adjustment. However i still don't know how to adjust the skin weights on a maya quick rig character after it's been finished. Is this possible?

[Dark__Night]

In answer to my own question, yes it is. The moral of the story is, make sure to click 'create/update' on your control rig and then skin after making any adjustments... once i did this i was able to use ythe paint skin weights tool and it worked fine...

[Dark__Night]

Hold on, no, it did not work. I lost all the work I did on the hands. When I updated the control rig it did not include the hands which I had added in following the Roland Reyer tutorial quick rig- attach the hands

[Dark__Night]

This is a known issue, in the description of the you tube video he explains how to fix it...phew!

'Maya 2020: Quick Rig + Attach hands' was the you tube tutorial for anyone who might experience this. 

[Dark__Night]

One annoying thing though, turning off display>transform display>local rotation axis doesn't work. The rig still has very annoying joint axis displays on the hands which make it fiddly to animate

[Dark__Night]

See image below. Even I select the whole skeleton, select hierarchy, then toggle the local axis display off, some of the local axis are still displayed (weirdly not all of them) . They totally refuse to go away. 

[Dark__Night]

Amazingly the only way to do it is to go into each individual joint and deselect display local axis in the attribute editor

😞

[kelly_hynes]

Hi there,

I'll follow up and see if we have a bug logged for this last issue with local axis display.  If not, I will log something.

Best regards,
Kelly

[Dark__Night]

Thanks Kelly, There is definitely some sort of bug with the toggling system, toggling off doesn't correctly untick all the joint axis attributes, I think it's probably something to do with a mix up from previous groups of selections in the history....if that makes sense!

[Dark__Night · Accepted solution]

So finally, the solutions to the above problems

1: The character freezing is an issue with the tutorial I was following...There is a problem with the Human IK setup. The issue is described/resolved in the youtube description- you have to unlock the human ik definition, fix the problem and lock it back up again, and then the rig works (Maya 2020 QuickRig + Attach Hands)

2: Painting weights freezes the rig: It actually doesn't, the rig had the error above already

3: Toggle off/on the local rotation axis: This does seem to be a bug, the workaround is to select each joint and untick local rotation in the display section of the attribute editor.

[Anonymous]

Hi. I'm struggling to move the quick rig controls as well. could you please elaborate on this one. Please