Cyclecheck Headache

[user_deleted]

I have a few locators moving along a motionpath.
When I scrub the timeline, I get these warnings:

// Warning: Cycle on 'Gcore_Loc4.translateX' may not evaluate as expected. (Use 'cycleCheck -e off' to disable this warning.) //
// Warning: Cycle on 'addDoubleLinear139.output' may not evaluate as expected. (Use 'cycleCheck -e off' to disable this warning.) //

This all belongs to a character rig, and as long as these warnings come up, I get strange results moving other parts of the rig. (I'll spare you the details)

Few questions...

1) what is addDoubleLinear??
2) I don't understand why there is a cyclical connection. The motionpath and locators are both without offensive inputs.
How can I track this down?...

[contrabazista]

1) what is addDoubleLinear??

look in Maya help.....

it's a useful node.

2) I don't understand why there is a cyclical connection. The motionpath and locators are both without offensive inputs.

Sounds like you will have to brake your rig and change stuff around. You get cycles when object, essentially, affects itself. Maya does not like that. It's like a dog chasing its own tail, not good for self esteem.

yury

[joojaa]

Its not actually a error, it is allowed. And maya likes it well enough as long as it dont attack the dag. Its jutst that its a very likely candidtae for a bug unless it was intended. So maya issues a warning. YOu can offcourse just turn the warning off.

(there are many valid cases for thees kinds of loops, but many more mistakes)

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I get strange results moving other parts of the rig. (

Then ist definitely a big in the loop. You see a cycle does not do exactly what people in general THINK it does