Things which Maya will auto-rename...Cameras, Lights, Meshes, etc

[rgkovach]

Is there someplace that has a list of all the tihngs which maya will attempt to rename if something else is renamed?

Like how a shape or camera node is renamed when the transform is renamed?

Besides the obvious cases like cameras, lights, shapes...what else falls under that category?

thanks.

[thnkr]

I think it's only shape nodes. You can use the -is flag on the rename command to stop Maya from renaming shapes.

[joojaa]

Only shape nodes but only if they fall under a certain naming structure first. So it only chnages things if they have the name tat matches the change. If you give teh shape a name like fooBar it nolonger autorenames them. But if you give a name like

pointLightHurraah to a transform thats name is pointLight. It does since it substitutes whatever your name was before to what it is after

Thing is its best not to keep shape names around when dealing with maya or you will be in trouble keep set names instead.

[rgkovach]

I only ask because i am running into situations where i ask maya to do something, and it complains that it cannot do that thing because more than object matches that name.

In most cases the problem is because the scripter is not using the shortest unique name...but even some of the maya native tools fail!

So i am attempting to force unique names on things using the "#" trick.

[mike-mast]

I need help with my system, in this moment is stuck...

[joojaa]

Thou shall use long names