Error when trying to reach inputs menu in maya

Rigging
#1

i just rigged and bound a character.

created the blendshapes and attached them to a facial GUI

a cartoony creature type of character with a unibody design but still fairly low res so i created all the blendshapes from the whole body and then realized afterwards that whenever i tried to pose the character and use the facial GUI he reverted back to his bind pose

so i figured i have to re arrange my inputs order but when i tried to select the character and go to its inputs menu i get an error

// Error: Object ‘row1’ not found. //

…i have no idea what maya is talking about and it will not show me the inputs menu

#2

Want to post the file? It’d probably be easier to debug if we can open the file and tinker with it.

#3

apparently it is a bug in Maya 2011

http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/rigging/major-problem-deformation-order/

i uploaded the file anyways just in case anybody could take a look and see if maybe its just my machine or maybe im completely off base and im overlooking something basic

cheers

#4

When I create a skin and blendshape file myself I can reorder the inputs but I can’t with your file. I get the row1 error.

#5

used this bit of code to work around the bugg

reorderDeformers “skinCluster1” “blendShape1” “pCylinder1”;

thanks for checking out the file, maya and those pesky buggers!! :curses: