Maya Reference without adding new name to object?

metrons

we're having an issue here at work, we're referencing in our rig files and our animator is working on them but all the files have a prefix that we cant figure out how to remove. we're using 2014 maya and we have no namespaces checked off.

if our referenced file is called 'rig' we'd like the referenced file to be only called 'rig' not 'rig_rig"

what the hell maya, i cant find a fix for this anywhere online. any help would be super appreciated.

timotronprime

Try the namespace editor.

metrons

i've looked at the name space editor and i cant have it blank. i'm not sure how i can use that to fix this issue. any help tim?

timotronprime

Can you not delete the namespaces you don't want?

metrons

the options i have are the default called

:(root)

i tried deleteting that, we dont need any name changes at all. i'd love to import a reference and have the name stay exactly the same. we have custom export tools and they're looking for specific text that we dont have once we reference our meshes. flipping nightmare.

rube

Try "Merge in selected namespace and rename incoming objects that match" under Namespace Options. That works for me in 2014. Merging will actually rename objects if you end up having two references with objects of the same name though, so that might end poorly. Or use namespaces but change your exporter to ignore everything before the ':'

metrons

rube, that worked perfectly!!! thats been plaguing us for weeks now. ty ty ty!

cheers