Cached Playback unsupported nodes

Some nodes in the Maya dependency graph (DG) disable the Cached Playback process. This section refers only to animated nodes that disable Playback Caching. If the nodes are not animated, Playback caching is not affected by them. For example, you can use non-animated XGen nodes with Cached Playback, so long as they are static. (Where "Not animated" means any node that is not a part of the Evaluation Graph.)

Playback caching is disabled, and enters Safe Mode if Maya detects any unsupported nodes in the scene. When Cached Playback is in Safe Mode, the Cached Playback status line and the Cached Playback icon turns yellow. (See Cached Playback status line states for more information.)

When in Safe Mode, the Cached Playback icon turns yellow

• textureDeformer nodes are unsupported and disable Cached Playback.
• hairSystem nodes are supported only if "hairSystem.simulationMethod is off or static and the nucleus node is set to disabled.
• timeEditor: Time Editor Animation Source nodes are supported, but not Time Editor Clip nodes. See the Time Editor table listed below for information on unsupported nodes.

There is a separate Dynamics status line (different from the Animation status line,) where you can load and refresh nParticle and nCloth dynamics in your scene along with animation. Activate Cached Playback dynamics support using the Cache Dynamics option in the Caching section of the Evaluation Toolkit.

You can override limitations for any other dynamics and force Cached Playback for dynamics nodes using the following environment variable: MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_<nodename>.

Use the variables in the following tables for each unsupported node.

Note: See Setting environment variables using Maya.env for information on using environment variables.

Note: For more technical details on Cached Playback, see the Maya Cached Playback whitepaper.

Bifrost

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
bifrostContainer		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_BIFROST

Cache file

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
cacheFile		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_CACHE_FILE

Grease Pencil

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
greasePlane greasePencilSequence		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_GREASE_PENCIL

Jiggle

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
jiggle		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_JIGGLE_DEFORMER

MASH

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
MASH_Jiggle		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_MASH
MASH_Trails.trailsMode (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	Join the Dots (2) Connect to Point (3) Connect to Nearest (4) Connect by Distance (5) Constraint Pairs (6)
MASH_BulletSolver	FALSE
MASH_Flight	FALSE
MASH_Spring	FALSE
MASH_Falloff.falloffEventType (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE
MASH_Time.enableVelocity (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE
MASH_Time.simulateTime (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE
MASH_Orient.orientMode (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE
MASH_Color.enableVelocity (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE

Muscle

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
cMuscleSystem.enableJiggle (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE	MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_MUSCLE
cMuscleSystem.enableSliding (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE
cMuscleSystem.enableForce (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE
cMuscleSystem.enableRelax (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	FALSE

Subdivision

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
subdiv.aOutSubdiv (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	*Not animated	MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_DEFORMING_SUBDIV

Texture deformer

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
textureDeformer		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_TEXTURE_DEFORMER

Time Editor

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
timeEditor (Conditional support: certain attribute values disable caching)	Supported if Time Editor is muted. See Mute the Time Editor. To mute Time Editor tracks, see Mute Tracks in Working with Time Editor tracks.	MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_TIME_EDITOR
timeEditorAnimSource (This node does not disable caching.)	*Supported This node works with Cached Playback.
timeEditorTracks (This node does not disable caching.)	*Supported This node works with Cached Playback.
timeEditorClip
timeEditorClipBase
timeEditorClipEvaluator
timeEditorClip.trackMuted	True
timeEditorClip.clips[i].trackMuted	True
timeEditorInterpolator

Trax

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
animClip		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_TRAX
clipGhostData
clipLibrary
clipScheduler
clipToGhostData

XGen

Disabling Nodes/Attributes	Supported Value	Force enable cache with
xgmPalette		MAYA_CACHE_IGNORE_UNSAFE_XGEN
xgmDescription
xgmPatch
xgmMakeGuide
xgmGuide
xgmGuideManip
xgmGuideSculptManip
xgmPointsManip
xgmConnectivity
xgmPointsViewer
xgmNurbsPatch
xgmSubdPatch
xgmArchiveGuide
xgmCardGuide
createPtexUV
xgmHairMapping
xgmSphereGuide
xgmSplineGuide
xgmSplineBase
xgmModifierBase
xgmModifierCut
xgmModifierCollision
xgmModifierSculpt
xgmModifierNoise
xgmModifierDisplacement
xgmModifierGuide
xgmModifierLinearWire
xgmModifierScale
xgmModifierClump
xgmCurveToSpline
xgmSeExpr
xgmSplineCache
xgmSplineDescription
igBrushManip
igmDescription