Cycle Check ??

[sahina]

I have a spline and a camera (with aim) in my scene. I have attahed my camera to the spline (attach to motion path with follow unchecked) so that camera would look at one point during the animation.

When I scrub on the timeline, I get this:

// Warning: Cycle on 'camera1.translateX' may not evaluate as expected. (Use 'cycleCheck -e off' to disable this warning.) //
// Warning: Cycle on 'addDoubleLinear1.output' may not evaluate as expected. (Use 'cycleCheck -e off' to disable this warning.) //

What exactly is cycle check and why is this an error?

If someone could explain this, I would greatly appreciate it.

PS: Yes, I am newbie..

Thanks
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[gmask]

I cannot give a great explaination of this but cycle check look sto see if there are nodes connecting back into themselves.. I guess this is like a feedback loop. This is usually not actually a problem but you can get rid of the warning by selecting the offending nodes and typing 'cycleCheck -e off' into the commandlien fo Maya and hittign enter.

[sahina]

Why would that be the case though? Does it mean I attached the camera (with aim) to the spline wrong? Is there any other way to acheive this without getting the warning?

Thanks

[gmask]

It's just a warning you can ignore it or use the cycle check command to turn it off.

[macaronikazoo]

yeah i get those cycle check errors all the time too when i use motionPaths... i think it must be a bug with the cycle check. i've certainly never had a problem because of it though, so i wouldn't worry about it I were you.

[sahina]

Thank you eveyone, I will just ignore it for now...

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