nParticle Reference Error

[Joviex]

Hey guys, I have a strange little error. If you reference an nParticle object into a scene you get the following error when selecting the particle:
// Error: The attribute 'Smoke_ParticlesShape.colorBlue' is from a referenced file, thus the keyable state cannot be changed. //

Does anyone have any solutions or encountered this before?

Yup. I wrote a patch to the core AETemplate file for 2011 a while back, but no one in FX was using nParticles in 2009, so we didnt backport it.

I can add the changed source to the 2009 core override folder in the AM.

Like you said, it does not affect anything per se, but it will halt the script.

Basically the template tries to set the attrs to keyable for any dynamic attr on the particles.

Technically it is correct with how references work in Maya, basically saying, 'Yo! wth! you are trying to add underlying attributes to something I referenced'

If it could add dynamic attrs to references via reference edits....

Cheers.

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