I call it a bug, but it's been around a loooong time.
Maya updates the ikHandles in a separate pass (there's just one solver for
multiple handles), and I don't believe that script mode forces an update on
the solver, where moving the root updates the DAG directly.
It's one of the several places where the maya internals bypass the DAG so
that they can work (IK handles don't put input connections on the joint
rotations as that _would_ be a cycle, so the update needs to live in a
callback somewhere, which isn't triggered by your code). Another place
where things get weird is with editable animation curves (the ones where
you've got an editable curve in the scene that updates the animation
curves).
Long story short, querying an attribute at a given time only works for
direct DAG evaluation. Anything which operates outside of the DAG won't be
updated when you call ```getAttr```. For those cases, you actually have to
set the time and refresh the evaluation prior to the ```getAttr``` call:
```
from maya import cmds
# Build Scene
# o o
# \ /
# \ /
# o
#
cmds.file(new=True, force=True)
a = cmds.joint(name="Root")
cmds.move(0, 0, 20)
cmds.joint()
cmds.move(0, 0, 0)
b = cmds.joint()
cmds.move(0, 10, -20)
handle, eff = cmds.ikHandle(
solver="ikRPsolver",
startJoint=a,
endEffector=b,
forceSolver=True,
)
assert cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx") == 0.0
cmds.refresh(force=True) # Side note, this means your scene actually has to
play through
assert cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx") == 0.0 # No Cycle warning anymore!
# Move handle
cmds.move(0, 15, -10, "|ikHandle1")
cmds.refresh(force=True)
assert round(cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx"), 0) == -14.0
assert cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx") == 0.0 # Correct value now, assertion is
thrown
```
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 01:29 Marcus Ottosson <konstrukt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> TLDR; In Maya 2015-2018, getAttr returns stale value when used in
> conjunction with an ikHandle
>
> I’ve ventured into the depths of querying attributes at an arbitrary time..
>
> # Examplefrom maya import cmds
> cmds.getAttr("myNode.translateX", time=5)
>
> And it has worked well so far, except for when IK is involved.
>
> from maya import cmds
> # Build Scene# o o# \ /# \ /# o#
> cmds.file(new=True, force=True)
> a = cmds.joint(name="Root")
> cmds.move(0, 0, 20)
> cmds.joint()
> cmds.move(0, 0, 0)
> b = cmds.joint()
> cmds.move(0, 10, -20)
> handle, eff = cmds.ikHandle(
> solver="ikRPsolver",
> startJoint=a,
> endEffector=b,
> )
> assert cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx") == 0.0assert cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx", time=1)
> == 0.0 # Cycle warning!
>
> Suddenly, Maya throws a cycle warning. Why is that?
>
> Furthermore, the value returned isn’t right anymore.
>
> # Move handle
> cmds.move(0, 15, -10, "|ikHandle1")
> assert round(cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx"), 0) == -14.0assert cmds.getAttr(a +
> ".rx", time=1) == 0.0 # Bad value, no warning..
>
> Where I should see -14.0 I get the previous value, 0.0. Why is that?
>
> And so the story goes, until..
>
> # Move root
> cmds.move(0, 0, 21, a)
> assert round(cmds.getAttr(a + ".rx"), 0) == -14.0assert round(cmds.getAttr(a
> + ".rx", time=1), 0) == -14.0 # Correct
>
> Viola, all values are correct. Why is that?? :O
>
> This happens consistently across all versions of Maya, except 2015 doesn’t
> throw a Cycle Warning.
>
> Anyone stumbled upon this before?
>
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