Hi all,

I'm curious if saving & loading poses apply only to the checked main control attributes in the save load tab? I was successful on saving & loading those values however not for the actual pose my character is making. I'm thinking that's not how it is right?? I really appreciate helps on this. I'm using maya 2011 with windows 7 64bit. Many thanks in advance!!

That is something that has to do with code that has changed a bit from previous versions of Maya. I have been using the older MEL commands and I thought it worked OK in 2011, but I will have another look and see. I have been doing most of my updates in older versions of Maya just to make sure they are backwards compatible.

If that is the issue, I will have to write in a bit of code that checks which version you are using.

Thanks for the info, and I will let you know soon!

Dustin

I just tried saving and loading in 2011 and everything seemed to load in ok. If you open the file that "Save Pose" writes out in text editor or notepad or something similar, there should be at least a couple hundred lines of code (depending on your rigged character), and it should look something like this:

string $rigName[] = `ls -sl`;
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_EyeAimC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_EyeAimC.tx"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_EyeAimC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_EyeAimC.ty"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_EyeAimC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_EyeAimC.tz"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.tx"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.ty"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.tz"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.rx"} -12.37226744;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.ry"} -5.244575531;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.rz"} 11.01214119;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.sx"} 1;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.sy"} 1;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_HeadC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_HeadC.sz"} 1;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_JawC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_JawC.tx"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_JawC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_JawC.ty"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_JawC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_JawC.tz"} 0;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_JawC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_JawC.rx"} 13.45187185;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_JawC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_JawC.ry"} -13.11859863;}
if (`objExists ($rigName[0]+ "_JawC")`) {setAttr {$rigName[0]+ "_JawC.rz"} -7.875023463;}

... and so on. Can you check to see if yours is similar? That will hopefully help narrow down what the problem might be.

Thanks!

Dustin

Ah that makes a lot of sense, the script looks for underscores and breaks up the name based on that. I think for now, I am going to set it up so that rig names can't have underscores, at least for the time being. I will then start trying to make it work so that underscores can be used in a rig name.

For now, is it a big deal for you to have to name your characters without underscores? I know that naming conventions are really important, so I hope this won't mess with your workflow.

Thanks for diagnosing the problem for me! It's greatly appreciated!

Dustin