Forum: Autodesk Maya
Posted By: NickJoll
Post Time: 08 August 2018 at 07:31 PM
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Documentation for the feature that is malfunctioning in 2018 can be found here:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-Ani...
Motion Trails WITH Anchor Transform option is broken in Maya 2018.
I consumed a good hour or more trying to figure out how this works. No matter what I did and no matter how many times I re-read the poorly documented grammatically wrong documentation, it just didn't produces what the documentation showed in the little animated gifs.
I thought to myself, "just move on....". But as usual it was bugging me. So I had the opportunity to try it out in Maya 2017.... And guess what! It works in 2017. It's completely malfunctioning in 2018. The Motion Trails are not at all in "animated camera space".
Of course it's broken.
Why was I wasting my time trying to get it to work?
Why was I doubting myself?
When in doubt, always try it, if possible, in another version of Maya.
It's usually and probably NOT you.
It's just Maya and the endless combination of bugs.
Always a different combination of random bugs in every other version of Maya.
Good luck being productive and efficient when having to jump from version to version.
Thanks Maya. Thanks for nothing... Shacking my head... what else is there left to do.
What a complete waste of time. Even the simplest things don't work from version to version.
Posted By: NickJoll
Post Time: 08 August 2018 at 07:31 PM
Text:
Documentation for the feature that is malfunctioning in 2018 can be found here:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-Ani...
Motion Trails WITH Anchor Transform option is broken in Maya 2018.
I consumed a good hour or more trying to figure out how this works. No matter what I did and no matter how many times I re-read the poorly documented grammatically wrong documentation, it just didn't produces what the documentation showed in the little animated gifs.
I thought to myself, "just move on....". But as usual it was bugging me. So I had the opportunity to try it out in Maya 2017.... And guess what! It works in 2017. It's completely malfunctioning in 2018. The Motion Trails are not at all in "animated camera space".
Of course it's broken.
Why was I wasting my time trying to get it to work?
Why was I doubting myself?
When in doubt, always try it, if possible, in another version of Maya.
It's usually and probably NOT you.
It's just Maya and the endless combination of bugs.
Always a different combination of random bugs in every other version of Maya.
Good luck being productive and efficient when having to jump from version to version.
Thanks Maya. Thanks for nothing... Shacking my head... what else is there left to do.
What a complete waste of time. Even the simplest things don't work from version to version.