Animation and Rigging Tools: FAQ, Known Issues and Feature Roadmap

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Hello there !

I have some trouble with Maya ART. An old colleague made a rig/skin (so it wasn’t made in my own computer). When I load it with the button “Add Character for Animation”, the script editor shows me this :

Warning: Unrecognized node type for node ‘nxRigidSolver1’; preserving node information during this session.

Warning: Unrecognized node type for node ‘nimaPhysicsLocator’; preserving node information during this session.

Warning: Unrecognized node type for node ‘DefaultLayer’; preserving node information during this session.

File read in 7 seconds.

requires … (3.00.01116.02380) , compiled 11/16/2013 2:32:35 AM";

File read in 0 seconds.

Warning: Errors have occurred while reading this scene that may result in data loss.

Please check the Script Editor for details. #

Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, “physx”, was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.

I think there is an other problem described in the 2 last lines.

However, the character is loaded with the rig. We could think there is no problem. But when I try to switch arm control from IK to FK, nothing happens and it shows this :

Warning: Cycle on ‘TEO:rig_clavicle_r_parentConstraint1.target[1].targetRotate’ may not evaluate as expected. (Use ‘cycleCheck -e off’ to disable this warning.)

Warning: Cycle on ‘TEO:auto_clav_switch_loc_r.translateX’ may not evaluate as expected. (Use ‘cycleCheck -e off’ to disable this warning.)

Warning: Cycle on ‘TEO:auto_clav_switch_loc_r_pointConstraint1.target[0].targetParentMatrix’ may not evaluate as expected. (Use ‘cycleCheck -e off’ to disable this warning.)

Error: ValueError: file C:/Program Files/Epic Games/4.9/Engine/Extras/Maya_AnimationRiggingTools/MayaTools/General/Scripts\ART_animationUI.py line 6274: No object matches name: TEO:hand_match_loc_r

Has someone got the answer ?
It’s going to make me sick if I can’t switch to FK ! ^^

Thank you !

Howdy!

So it seems the file was likely made in a different version of maya, or a version that had plugins loaded that you don’t. No biggie there, especially if everything comes in.
The error you are getting is actually because the rig must have been built on a fairly old version of the code. You’ll want to rebuild the rig with the latest. To do this, you can open a new scene, go to EpicGames menu, select edit existing character, choose the character and select edit export file. From here, simply hit the Build button to overwrite and you’ll get the latest version of the rig, and that error will go away

Let me know if you need any assistance getting through that.
Cheers!