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1. Maya: Renaming shape nodes issue

   

   Topic by Toast · May 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi, During my workflow, I have to import some objects, unfortunately the transforms and shape nodes import with the same name. Maya does not like this. I have this script to rename shape nodes and it works ok. for ($i in `ls -sl -dag -shapes -l`){ $parent=`listRelatives -p $i`; rename $i `substitute ((string)$parent[0])…

2. Re: Maya: Renaming shape nodes issue

   

   Reply by badmanjam · Sep 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi Toast. Did you find a solution to the freezing problem?

3. Re: Maya: Renaming shape nodes issue

   

   Reply by Harbinger · May 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm too rusty in MEL to debug that, but rather than scripting around it, have you experimented with the Namespaces options when importing?

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   Reply by haiddasalami · May 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Just tried it and didnt freeze maya. Mind putting up the scene?

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   Reply by Toast · Oct 2016 · Home› Technical Talk

   Sorry - no. 

6. Re: Maya: Renaming shape nodes issue

   

   Reply by Toast · May 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi, running the above script on any of these meshes in the zip file freezes Maya https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxpfsbhxclgdlb1/craaaaash.zip

7. Re: Maya: Renaming shape nodes issue

   

   Reply by Toast · May 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks, I'm using polytrans, so there is no option for this. Apart from namespace issues, it works so much better than Autodesk's FBX.