Re: Unable to delete Chain

[Daniel Marriott <dcm001(at)ntlworld.com>]

Thanks a lot Adam, that sounds like exactly what happened as I did cut 
the effector off.
Lesson learned :)

The model export method worked out fine.
Cheers, and thanks also for your excellent rigging series on 3dTutorial 
by the way !
Best wishes,
Dan

Adam Sale wrote:

> you probably cut an effector from its hierarchy, and then deleted it 
> in a claenup stage when you were symmetrying.. and now XSI is having
> a hard time blowing away its chain minus the effector..
>
> sometimes, you can get a null, make the chain a child of the null, and 
> then branch sel the null and delete the chain..
> other times if that doesn't work.. get a model > parent all your 
> objects under that model as children (don't parent in the problem chain)
> and then export the model. Get a new scene and re-import the model.
>
> Adam
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Marriott" 
> <dcm001(at)ntlworld.com>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:32 AM
> Subject: Unable to delete Chain
>
>
> > Hi, I'm trying to delete a chain in my scene but am getting the 
> > following error :-
> >
> > ERROR : 21000-EDIT-DeleteObj - Unspecified failure
> > DeleteObj "B:UN1_RightShoulderRoot"
> > 'ERROR :  - [line 3396 in 
> > C:\Softimage\XSI_4.2_Foundation\Application\DSScripts\uixsiscripts.vbs]
> >
> > Arrrggghhh !
> >
> > I'll explain what I did,
> > I made an arm chain and hand chain and used duplicate symmetry to 
> > obtain the other side.
> > Later I needed to adjust the bone positions, so I deleted the 
> > mirrored arm chain but left the finger bones alone, intending to 
> > mirror just the adjusted arm chain, since the hand was fine and I 
> > could parent it back in.
> > Well when I did this, something went wrong and now I can't delete it ??
> >
> > Any ideas about how I can fix this ?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dan
> >
> >
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