General constraint node attributes

Pivots

Selections for displaying the point constraint’s local rotate and scale pivots in local or world space.

Limit Information

For Maya internal use only: attributes inherited from transform node.

Display

Selections for selection handle display attributes, including handle display, local axis display, selection handle position (relative to current Translate X, Y, and Z attribute values), default manipulator display selections, visibility, and template. Bounding Box Information and Drawing Overrides not applicable.

Node Behavior

Caching: Specifies that Maya store the results of input evaluations, and then provide those results to the node. This saves Maya from having to re-evaluate the input nodes every time the node needs the results. If there are no changes to the input nodes, then this setting can improve display performance with no loss of results. However, note that caching uses more memory than would otherwise be used, which could adversely affect performance. Also, if there are changes to input nodes, more memory is allocated and then freed, which could also adversely affect display performance.

Node State

Set Node State to Normal, HasNoEffect, Blocking, Waiting-Normal, Waiting-HasNoEffect, or Waiting-Blocking. (Note that for constraints the Node State attribute is available as a channel in the Channel Box.)

Normal: Specifies that Maya evaluate and display the constraint. Maya will evaluate the node as usual. This is the default.
HasNoEffect: Specifies that Maya prevent the constraint, but display the object. Maya will evaluate the nodes in the node’s history, but not the node itself.
Blocking: Specifies that Maya prevent the constraint, and not display the object. Maya will not report the results of any evaluations of input nodes to this node.
Waiting-Normal: (For Maya internal use only.) Specifies that if the dependency graph evaluation refresh performance setting ( Window > Settings/Preferences > Performance Settings) is set to Demand or Release, the node will take the Normal state when you click Update or release the mouse button.
Waiting-HasNoEffect: (For Maya internal use only.) Specifies that if the dependency graph evaluation refresh performance setting is set to Demand or Release, the node will take the HasNoEffect state when you click Update or release the mouse button.
Waiting-Blocking: (For Maya internal use only.) Specifies that if the dependency graph evaluation refresh performance setting is set to Demand or Release, the node will take the Blocking state when you click Update or release the mouse button.

Extra Attributes

Lists the weights for each target object. Their initial values are all from the weight creation option.