Can't save interactive xgen descriptions or move to other PC

[Lewis.Moorhead]

Hi there,

I have a maya scene which works perfectly on mac I can move the object and the xgen interactive groom follows, it renders fine and works great as its stored in the maya scene. 

When i archive the scene and send it to a supplier they can also open it and it renders fine however it cant be moved without the xgen staying behind.

I tried to export the descriptions to send but it says 'no collections are available' porbably because interactive is meant to be stored in the file. 

Any ideas?

I looked in the set project folder and there is no xgen files present I also tried a computer wise search for these xgen files and cant find.

any ideas? 

thanks.

[Christoph_Schaedl]

What about convertig the xgen core to interacive. 
That will store all data inside the maya file.

[Lewis.Moorhead]

Ahh sorry i wasn't more clear it is a interactive groom thats what baffles me that its stored in the maya scene but when the object is moved the xgen doesnt follow it.

thanks for the reply. 

[Christoph_Schaedl · Accepted solution]

Is the scene saved on frame 0?

Xgen needs that to initialize. 

If you move the timeslider later it should follow.

[Lewis.Moorhead]

Hey thanks again, i saved it at frame 0 but it still stayed 0,0,0 when moving the object on another pc. 

[Lewis.Moorhead]

OKay i have noticed that a few grooms move and 1 or 2 don't, Im wondering if its something to do with the mesh its generated from, I looked for keys and i cant see any keyframes so shouldnt be that. 

[Lewis.Moorhead · Accepted solution]

I have fixed it by setting frame to 0 but also on the groom that was the issue i turned on 'frozen' and it seemed to work.