Remove Blendshape

[rgkovach]

I'm trying to remove unwanted blendshapes from a blendshape Node, but I'm having trouble with this very seemingly simple operation.
I've read through the documentation for the Remove BlendShape window and the blendShape node, but get errors when I try to remove the unwanted blendshapes.

If I use the Remove Blendshape dialog box, I get the error:

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// Error: 'blendshape1' not a DAG item. //

If I try:

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blendShape -e -rm -g frown blendshape1;

nothing happens, not even an error message...

Am I going about this the wrong way?

Using 8.5

Thanks

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I discovered that my problem is that the individual blendShape target names don't match the original geometry names anymore. For example, what is listed as "smile" under the node blendshape1 is linked to a mesh object called "head_smile". Is there a way to trace the blendshape targets back to the geometry that created it?

[underearth]

try this

    removeMultiInstance ("blendShapeName.aliasAttrName" );
removeMultiInstance ("blendShapeName.inputTarget[0].inputTargetGroup[13]");
removeMultiInstance ("blendShapeName.weight[13]" );

to see the w number use aliasAttr -remove command

aliasAttr -rm blendShapeName.aliasAttrName;

i use this.. to remove teh targets...

hope it works..

here weight numbers are those which coresspond to blendShape taht you want to remove.. plug your blendshape node into connection editor... you will come to know what i mean..

[rgkovach]

Thanks for the tips Sunny, but I still can't it to work for me.

I get an error when I try to remove the inputTargetGroup.

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// Error: The attribute 'blendshape1.inputTarget[0].inputTargetGroup[5]' is connected and -b true was not specified //