Renaming bones in blender

Jakten_hizeme

Hello, I was wondering if there was an easy way to rename a bunch of bones, I know you can do it for left and right but I want to change a specific name. For example:

If all the bones have the name john in them like leg.john.L I want to change all the Johns to Sams. Is this possible?

I want to reuse the rig on a large number of characters but it's taking ages renaming every bone one at a time.

Dim

Here, this should help a lot to that end: http://vimeo.com/20547255

Jakten_hizeme

Hey, thanks for the video Dim, I'm still kind of trying to figure out how the rigging works in blender and that helped quite a bit but it didn't really shed any light on how to switch a name in a large number of bones quickly.

The previous animator named his bones that way and told me I should continue to do it. I guess the programmer needs that information? I'm not really sure. All I really know is that it's tedious!

Dim

I'm not sure if there's a batch rename type of tool, but I'd say they easiest way to do it would be in the outliner. Use ctrl+LMB to rename. Hope that helps

Jakten_hizeme

that makes it quicker, thanks Dim!