Maya question and answer

Trouble With the Curve.

Here is a problem I encountered when using the graph editor in Maya 2013. The project contains two referenced characters, a soldier rigged with Anzovin studio's The Setup Machine for Games, and a gun character with a simple rig that I did myself. The characters are referenced into the scene where I constrained  some of their control curves to each other. This was done before I read the article by Kiel Figgins where he states towards the bottom of the page that you should not constrain a reference to a reference, ( http://www.3dfiggins.com/writeups/mayaReference/ ) but this was after I had already done it.

Now I will attempt to fix the problem with the animation curves by constraining the gun character to the soldier character in the soldier rig tweak file, then save it as soldier_rig.ma and re-open the scene to see how it works out.

Here is a video about it:

The problem I'm encountering is that  the curves appear straight in the display window and that makes adjusting tangent handles troublesome as well as making it difficult to view the entire curve all at once.Please let me know if you have any input on this.

Thanks, as always, I really appreciate any and all input.

Jon

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