I'm using maya 6.1 unlimited.
I have 3 different objects in a scene, a book cover, and 2 book pages that I want to animate. First the cover opens, then the pages turn.
I can't find any info on how to do this. I can animate one with no problem but when I try to do the second one I can't figure out how. One seems to cancel out the other. What am I missing?
Thanks for any input!
Robert
Well, excuse me, in my frustration I spoke too soon. I guess it does work. However I am led to annother question.
many times, when I select all joints in a chain an attempt to freeze transformations I get an error "cannot freeze transformations because joint 1 translate (or rotate) x (or y or z) has incoming connections.Often the joing in question is the root joint.
EXAMPLE: (Error: Freeze Transform was not applied because page_joint_18.translateX has incoming connection).
When I look for incoming connections to that joint in the hypergraph I see nothing however, in the channel editor I do see that the specified transform is other than zero, so, it ends that I cannot freeze transformations because I cant find any incoming transform. Please tell me where they might be?
Eventually I will get the hang of this. At least after 5 days I am able (kind of) to get a cover and page to turn.
Thanks for any input.
Robert