Monday, March 26, 2012

Anthony Merola- "Unknown Nodes" error

Hey everyone,

I know that I have run into this a few times, where maya does not allow me to save a scene because it says it contains "unknown nodes" and thus cannot change the file type.

I found this handy mel command which tells maya to parse the scene for any unknown nodes, and subsequently deletes them.

The instructions can be found here.

http://juss-usa.blogspot.com/2010/02/file-contains-unknown-nodes-or-data.html

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Taylor Holmes said...

I run into this a lot and just haven't taken the time to find a fix. Thanks for sharing!

Daniel said...

Also try optimizing scene size by removing the unknown nodes. That may not be the definitive fix, but it may let you at least save your file.