motion trail not following the body ctrl motion

scapitta
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motion trail not following the body ctrl motion

scapitta
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Hi, I am experiencing a problem with the motion trail in Maya 2023 and Maya 2024.
My students are animating a simple cat, and they need to track the end of the tail with the motion trail, which does not work properly. It works fine up to Maya 2022.
When I create a motion trail on the last control of the tail, it appears, and it follows the movement of the tail, but it doesn't take into consideration the movement of the cat's body.
So if the cat jumps from left to right, the motion trail stays at its first position.
Does anyone know what the problem might be and how to fix it?

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dinofiguera
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This is weird,

I have built a similar rig and the motion trail works fine in Maya 2023.

What I can suggest as a workaround is creating a locator;
placing it in the same position as the control to track;
parent constraint the locator to the controller and create the motion trail on the locator...
There might be a better solution but this should at least fix it temporarily...

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