Computer Animation Arts

Hotfixes Since its release there has been several recorded 'bugs' which seriously effect the use of Maya 2011. Autodesk has issued 'Hotfixes' to help fix these problems. The second hotfix (which includes the first) is available to download and install. I recommend that you do this on your home computers to avaoid any problems in the future. Autodesk Hotfix 2 Website Download Inputs - All Inputs (Row error) There is an issue which Autodesk hasn't fixed regarding 'Inputs - All Inputs'. When selecting this option a 'Row' error appears. Again, I recommend that you fix this problem regardless of your year group / knowledge. The fix can be found here

When doing the the blend-shapes on the character tutorial for the 2nd year I came across an unexpected error, when trying to open 'All Inputs', it came up an error, and it just wouldnt open. As shown in the picture: Inputs List: Error: Knowing if I couldnt sort out this error I could not progress on the tutorial, i did a quick research on internet and found out that in maya 2011 hotfix3 ( the version I am using) it has a bug.   ( for easy solution I will post directly the solution from the website I found) "  Maya goes over a list of items to add, but is told to skip an item called SEPARATOR; doing so messes up the list count and now Maya goes from list item 0 to 2 directly, and can’t find row1. This only happens if you have layers in the scene. The solution is to remove SEPARATOR from the list, which is pretty simple: Quit Maya In scripts/others/detachHistoryTable.mel change tokenize (  $all ,  $list  );   $n  = ...