IK Controlers wont keyframe?!

[Brummitt]

Hi all,

In MAX5, i'm trying to animate a character, and his feet and legs are rigged with IK, but when i try and keyframe the feet controls, they will not set a keyframe when i hit the key button with set key/ auto key turned on.

The only way a key can be set is if i move the actual controls, which i dont want to do on some occasions. Does anyone know why this is?! and how to go about fixing it?

Thanks

MAt...

[Sen3D]

Difficult to say. So you can only set keys by moving the IK goal? Stupid question, I assume the IK goals are correctly linked to the controls?
Try cloning the control & just doing a little test animation, (move it along an axis & try to set 2 keys.) If it doesn't work, hit the unlink button for the cloned control & try again. If it works that time then it's something to do with the rig's hierarchy, i.e., linking, wired parameters or contraints etc.
There may be a way to return control to the controls using list controllers which I can tell you about.
Also check that under the controls properties it is allowed to have keyframes set for it.