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1. Maya Rig - Character Set // Error: line 0: animCurve creation or connection failed for attribute

   

   Topic by Lyrup · May 2019 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm quite confused by rigging and I was wondering if there are any experienced riggers around who can share their insights. I've created a model and a rig for a character and I created a character set called MainCharacter. It was created as a clean empty character set, and I only manually added all the desired attributes…

2. Re: Maya Rig - Character Set // Error: line 0: animCurve creation or connection failed for attribute

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · May 2019 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've run into that error a few times. I haven't changed how I rig and sometimes it pops up and sometimes it doesn't. Drives me bonkers because I haven't figured out what causes it or a solid fix for it. There are times that I'll redo that part of the rig, test it and get no errors then days later they are back. Here are…

3. Re: Maya Rig - Character Set // Error: line 0: animCurve creation or connection failed for attribute

   

   Reply by Lyrup · May 2019 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks for your reply Mark, I've actually managed to 'fix' the problem for 8 of my 10 errors. The error magically seemed to disappear after I removed the mentioned attributes from the character set and just added them again. I don't remember if I had shut down and restarted Maya before I added them back to the character…

4. Re: Maya Rig - Character Set // Error: line 0: animCurve creation or connection failed for attribute

   

   Reply by Lyrup · May 2019 · Home› Technical Talk

   Ah. I think I've found and fixed the issue (for my situation). There were leftover/unused point constraints inside my EyeScaleSlider_R_CTRL and EyeScaleSlider_L_CTRL objects. I erroneously assumed these still had a purpose. I deleted these and was able to add the Translate Y attribute to the character set and now able to…