Extracted polygon naming problems

[foot]

I am working on large-scale environment at the mo, and am using the

[psynapse]

Try deleting history on the extracted faces FILE>Delete by type>History

hope this helps.

[user_deleted]

Hi there

As I can see you have possibly got this model converting a NURBS model into polygons, therefor maya gives all of the newly born faces ( i.e the ones which are made using the extract tool ) the same name and as you mentioned your self it will result up to many problems, In this case a practical solution is rename the main mesh after conversion into polygon and delete its history, this way after each polygon extract you should have a uniqe name .

Hope this works .

[foot]

The problem came from extracting polys from a larger mesh. Your solution is my present work around.. The thing i cant understand is where and when Maya gets the last named object from, and why it doesn

[user_deleted]

Hi again

Where and when maya gets the last name is based on the rule no 1 in maya which says :

MAYA IS A NODE BASED SOFTWARE
meaning any sort of objects ( i.e. modeling nurbs, shaders, lights, . . . ) will be a node then a uniqe name shoud be linked to them but why it doesn't name them numericallly might be dependant on the name of the original faces that you can't be sure what they are,
And I don't know how you can get them .

Thanks

[joojaa]

May i suggest a piece of strategy here for you guys. Whenever you use the ui to do something you get the easiest form of mel executed. So the naming conventions might crap. But with allmost no work you can change this behaivour.

Se for yourself what maya does (set echo all command s on). NOw you can se what command is used to do this in this case polyChipOff. Now read the doc on poly chip off. and you soon realize. That this could help, now read the descriptions for commands in the mel reference (note theres a bug on the polyChip of cocumentation it reads keepFacetTogether instead of keepFacesTogether bu you should use the shorthands)

so this turns out to work pretty well:

{//chip and separate with own naming
polyChipOff -constructionHistory 1 -keepFacesTogether 1 -duplicate 0;
polySeparate -constructionHistory 1 -name "yourNamingConventionForEachPieceHere" listRelatives -allParents;
}

now this names both shards with the same convention. YOu could make some intelligence in this. By querrying the original name and so on. Hope this helps. Just paste that to the script editor and put to shelf.