I have been getting this same behavior for a few versions now where after an Apply Action, constraints don't refresh, the only workaround I found was to go back and forth a frame in the timeline..
----- Original Message -----
From: Thiago Costa <thiagocosta3d@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, March 7, 2008 5:29 pm
Subject: constraints vs viewport refresh/update
To: XSI@Softimage.COM
> Isn't weird that XSI doesn't update correctly constraints and
> other operator
> values when the object is not visible in the viewport?
> Is there a way to force XSI to read that specific object even
> when it's not
> invisible?...
>
> If anyone wanna try... open this scene attached, and play.
> You'll see the
> animation is all right.
> Now hide all nulls or just disable the visibility for nulls in
> the viewport
> and play it again.
> Here it just don't update the nulls animation correctly when you hide
> nulls... Is there a performance reason for this be like that?
>
> It should update operators when they are necessary for Envelops
> or other
> things that are being displayed... shouldn't it?
> Now Raff will complain that I'm attaching scenes too :P
>
> anyway... it's almost weekend in the pacific... :P
>
