How can I see objetcs with the same name?

[puppetsoul]

I have a complex scene, and sometimes, some objects in different hierarchie have the same name.
How can do for select double objects?
In fact I need a script who can
- determine the name who are used 2 or more times by objects.
- select all this objects and add a suffix "_1" for the 1st name, "_2" for the 2nd object with the same name, etc... and do this for all names....

I have really need to this tips because my scene is complex and I cant image rename all by hand!!

Thanks in advance...

I drink 3D all morning...

[jschleifer]

Heya,

had this happen a lot..

hmmm..

you'll have to do some sort of recursive thing.. where you keep using the "ls" command to get a list of everything in the scene. Then you iterate through that list and find a name which has a "|" in it. If there's a "|" in the name, then you know that you've found something which matches another name within maya.

Then you can find out what the actual object name is by tokenizing that string by the "|"'s.. the last item in the tokenized list is the name you want to change.

Then you can just get a list of all each of those by doing a ls "*|name".. and then iterate through that and rename them to ("name_" + $x)..

then go back to the beginning and iterate through the whole thing again until there are no more names with "|" in them.

I think that would work..

-jason

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I have a complex scene, and sometimes, some objects in different hierarchie have the same name.
How can do for select double objects?
In fact I need a script who can
- determine the name who are used 2 or more times by objects.
- select all this objects and add a suffix "_1" for the 1st name, "_2" for the 2nd object with the same name, etc... and do this for all names....

I have really need to this tips because my scene is complex and I cant image rename all by hand!!

Thanks in advance... I drink 3D all morning...

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jason schleifer
animator
weta digital

[glocker]

Try Maya's Window | Settings/Preferences | Preferences | Settings - Modeling from the Categories list and under Node Naming select "assign unique names to child nodes" to keep this problem from happening.

This won't clean a file that already has duplicates, but it should prevent the problem in new scenes.

g-

[jschleifer]

woah, when did this get there?

cooool...

In reply to:

Try Maya's Window | Settings/Preferences | Preferences | Settings - Modeling from the Categories list and under Node Naming select "assign unique names to child nodes" to keep this problem from happening.

This won't clean a file that already has duplicates, but it should prevent the problem in new scenes.

g-

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jason schleifer
animator
weta digital

[puppetsoul]

Thanks a lot for your answer.

.. But Im not a MEL killer and your method is too hard for me to write... how can make recursive job??

If you are a good MEL writer, can you, if this is not too long, just write this little MEL.. just enough for check all object and see if there is aother with the same name.. thats the part where I fail...

Please, Im so in trouble with this in a very important scene..
(I have build the scene with Maya3, so there wasnt the auto-rename feature. Now, Im on Maya4)

Thanks in advance

I drink 3D all morning...

[glocker]

Use Maya to help you rename the nodes correctly. This should work using either the API or MEL, although I haven't actually written the code yet.

1)Make a dummy node named "myDummyNode"
2)Loop thru all the nodes in your scene.
3)For each node in your scene:
a)save the node's name
b)rename the node to "xxxxxx"
c)rename the dummyNode to the name saved in step a
d)save dummyNode's new name
e)rename dummy node back to "myDummyNode'
f)rename the node to the name saved in step d.
g)loop until done

When you rename the dummyNode, Maya should verify that this name is unique. If it is not unique, it will use its own internal code to rename it correctly.

g-