Maya 6 referencing issues with lattices

[gothicka]

Has anyone encountered and hopefully found out a fix for this problem? I've recently upgraded from Maya 5 to 6. My character mesh has an FFD lattice on it - when I reference it into a new scene the control points on the lattice are completely frozen - I cannot transform them at all, and when I try the command feedback line gives a message saying that the selected object is locked. Strangely though, other lattices that I placed on the character while I was still using Maya 5 work fine. I tested this out on other mesh objects in Maya 6 - putting lattices on them and then referencing them in a new scene and still the lattice control points are completely frozen. I've checked in the Channel Control window and all the points are definitely unlocked. If I import the reference the control points unfreeze though. Very strange.

[gmask]

I tried creating a reference of a lattice in maya 5 and I get the same problem in Maya 5 and in Maya 6 are you sure this worked in Maya 5?

[gothicka]

geez, you're right - I just tried it in Maya 5 and it's doing the same thing. Weird though, that the other lattices (that I put on the mesh in Maya 5) let me translate them OK. The only difference between them and the lattice that is giving me the problems is that they're connected to a custom GUI via Set Driven Key - I can control these lattices via the GUI and by manually moving the points. Maybe somehow the sdk allows you to bypass whatever it is that keeps the points locked. Dunno. I might set up SDK on this one too and see if it fixes the problem. Thanks heaps for your help:)

[gothicka]

OK, well clearly the lattice points are frozen on the referenced mesh. Doesn't matter, I'm happy enough using this workaround: Put the lattice on the mesh, but then select the lattice control points and make a cluster. When you reference the mesh the cluster deforms the lattice points in the referenced scene OK.