Maya v4 Joints not visible in Maya 2017+

[brian_salisbury]

Hello,

I have some great Mocap from a shoot that I directed in 2001. I have used this data in every version of Maya. Maya 2017 and later will not display the joints. I've tried Attribute Editor>Draw Style Bone, Display>Show All, Made Sure Joints were visible, etc. The joints and curves are there, but not visible.

The only work around so far is to load into Maya 2016 (Pre-Extension) and export in order in order to enable visibility of the joints in 2017 & 2018. Is there a better way?

I've been using Maya since V1, and I'd like to be able to access my legacy files. My 2016 license will expire one day 😞 

Any help would be most appreciated.

[brian_salisbury]

Well, I tried exporting the invisible joints as .FBX from 2018.3 and re-importing and that did the trick.

Still, Is there a better solution?

Thanks