AttributeAlias

[highend3djojan-]

Found a way to rename static attribute, using AttributeAlias:

createNode transform -n "GRP";
addAttr -sn "name1" -ln "attributeAliasList" -bt "name2" -dt "attributeAlias";
setAttr ".name1" -type "attributeAlias" {"YilNeeloo","scaleY"} ;

But it works only in .ma file.
Similar code doesnt work if we run directly inside Maya. Why?
Anybody knows any way of renaming static attributes using AttributeAlias datatype?
Or any other way?

[joojaa]

Similar code doesnt work if we run directly inside Maya. Why?

probbly because of the order of data creation. Not all things are settable outside loading context a lot of plugs are IO only maning they have only a meanigfull interpretetaion whilst mayas loading and saving. So what you get in ma file is not really 100% compatible with mel inside maya.

Anyway theres a command called aliasAttr you should use when inside maya:

aliasAttr YilNeeloo GRP.scaleY

[highend3djojan-]

Thnx again. Btw, "YilNeeloo" is a usage in my language (malayalam) which means "scale in Y" 

[joojaa]

Yes I figured out that much.