Eyes Not Translating With The Head?

[mike45450]

Hey guys,

i'm rather new to Maya, and tried tinkering around with creating some simple stuff. Well i've made a character and rigged him up and made a simple walk cycle with him, but there's a problem when I try and move his whole body around. Now since I am still learning, my methods are most likely wrong, but here's what I did:

I wanted independent control over the main body mesh and the eyes, so I simply parented a pair of polySpheres to the main body mesh for his eyes. However now when I try and translate him along Z to move him forward/back, his eyes don't move with his body. Obviously I must have screwed something up from when I was rigging to the animation process. Is there any simple way to fix this, as since i've already made a walk cycle it'd be a bit frustrating having to do everything again.

Here's what's happening:

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/517/alieneyes2sg8.jpg

[firechameleon]

hey, i'm new to maya just like you......... haven't started animation yet....... modelling right now.........

but why don u try this.......... click on "body" in ur outliner and then move ur character.........? maybe that'll help........ this is just a guess........

[joojaa]

this is most likely whats called a double transform (irrespectible of how many times its transformed over). Dont bind the eyes to BOTH the bone structure and the skin at te same time. Rather limit data comming in form one or the other.

See what happens is the boes move the eye because of hierarchy and the bones affec the skin laticce etec whatever and thet moves the eyes again.