Maya animation. My control rig/ik points are constrained all of a sudden.

Hayden Zammit

Hi guys.

I'm having a bit of trouble with animating these characters for a game I'm working on.

I opened these files for the first time in months and for some reason the values for my Ik/control points in Maya's channel box all have blue beside them to indicate they're constrained. They weren't like this before and I really need them to go back. It makes it impossible for me to copy and paste values from say, one arm to another. I also can't animate a single attribute if I want to.

Here's a screenshot:

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

- hayden.

sprunghunt

Have a look in the hypershade connection editor. What are they connected to? 

Hayden Zammit

sprunghunt said:

Have a look in the hypershade connection editor. What are they connected to? 

Do you mean the outliner? When i click an ik ball and expand connections in the hypershade it doesn't show me antyhing

sprunghunt

no Hayden Zammit said:

sprunghunt said:

Have a look in the hypershade connection editor. What are they connected to? 

Do you mean the outliner? When i click an ik ball and expand connections in the hypershade it doesn't show me antyhing

whoops - I meant the hypergraph

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/files/GUID-5EC40DB1-FBD9-4553-A2FD-6D3508C9B868-htm.html

throttlekitty

In the shoulders inputs, there is a HIK_Controls_I, what does that do? I also see there's a number of pair blends coming out of the shoulder, it probably has some coming in.

Use the node editor instead, select your shoulder control and graph the connections there, the hypergraph will more of a nightmare to sort through. You may also be able to right click on the translate/rotate fields in the channel box and do Select Connection, but I suspect you'll land on one of those pairBlend nodes. You should be seeing some constraints in the outliner.

FWIW, i'm looking at a mostly default HIK setup right now and those aren't present.