Problem occurs in Maya reference workflow

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Greetings everyone!Long time havn’t met here,hope u guys r going smoothly.

I’ve engaged a problem.Actually this solid problem troubled me for a long time:
I use the Maya reference as the base of my animation workflow.Everything goes smoothly and efficient except the broken link of the shaders.:curses: The models apear as only wireframe.

sometimes this problem occur,and i could reassign the shader back to the model.But sometimes i even couldn’t assign any shaders to the model witch lost the shading-link.I tried to fix it through a (really) heavy job in the Hypergraph and connection editor,sometimes it works.:sigh:I’ve checked the help docs and scanned the maya files carefully,but still have no idea why it happens.

My file structure could be discribed as below:

Animation file --(reference)–> Rig files --(reference)–> Model files.

All the Model files has no render layer and history,only some display layers.So do the Rig files too.And i can ensure there’s no namespace conflict.
I guess some or many of u people r using such kind of pipeline.So any suggestions will be really appreciatful.:nod::nod:

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Can you get it to reproduce the error on the same set of files every time?

What version of Maya are you using?

Can you include a simple .zip w/ a setup that will reproduce the error? Then everybody can bang away on it for a bit and come up w/ the reason and/or a workaround.

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I usually use the same reference scheme you described. The only shader problems I ever had with it was a rendering issue, where one shader appeared transparent only in the batch render, a manual render was fine. Other animation files in the same project, same references, were fine.

I never solved the problem, I just rendered each frame for that scene manually and moved on. These were a mix of blinn, lambert and many ramp shaders, maybe about a couple dozen total.