Maya 2016 Preset Blending for Paint Effects

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Our team just upgraded to Maya 2016 and I discovered that the Preset Blending in Maya 2016 for Paint Effects does not work.

It doesn't blend neither the shading nor shape of the brushes.  Once activated attempting to switch and use another Paint effects brush will not change.  Only the previous brush is drawn.  Starting a fresh file will not fix it.  Only restarting Maya will reset it.

This awesome little tool worked fine in Maya 2015.

The error it throws up is:

// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2016/scripts/paintEffects/brushPresetSetup.mel line 374: New name has no legal characters. //

Thanks,

JW

[pshwayka]

Confirmed. The error occurs on both OSX and Windows.

[Anonymous]

I confirm this.  Was looking foward in using painteffects blending for the first time, when this occured.  

Error Autodesk/Maya2016/scripts/paintEffects/brushPresetSetup.mel line 374: New name has no legal characters.

Paint effects is pretty much unusable now... Errors after you try blending, and even when switching to a completely different brush.  

[Anonymous]

Same problem here - and its March 2016 now! - and SP5 still doesn`t fix the problem!!

Please, Autodesk, do something. Brush Blending is not working!!

PS.: You don`t necessarily need to restart Maya after the blending bug messes up Paint Effects. If you activate and then deactivate Preset Blending in the Generate menu Paint Effects should work again.