naming problems /auto-renaming with appended numbers

[H3ro]

Add a loop to it.

Something like:

for ($i = 0; i < 10; $i++)
$name = "house" + $i

I dont remember the correct syntax for adding a number to a string, but I have solved the same problem you have like posted above.

Best of luck

[pixlix2]

thanks for the answer... hmm, yes, that's a way it could probably be done, but there are issues. I want the script to be really stable. For example I run it once and it creates something between 200-400 objects, then i decide to delete some of them by hand and run the script again to create 50-100 more objects. I would have to loop through all objects of the scene to see which name are already given away....

maybe there is a way to get this addPrefix-thing to work?

thanks

[trancor]

Well, you can have a list be made of all the "house" groups already existing and then start the counting from there. Enless I misunderstood something.

I realize you said you delete some objects by hand, would that mean deleting the group altogether?


string $groupList[]=`ls ("house*")`;

group -n ("house"+(size($groupList))) $obj;

Or in a loop

for ($x=size($groupList); $x<$maxVar; ++$x){
group -n ("house"+$x) $obj;
}

edit-Just a note, this wont work if you delete lets say 5 groups in the middle of the count and you still want to name them propperly because it will start counting from 5 down from the last number which would already exist.

edit edit - Err, you could always have an auto renamer in the scripting function to resituate the correct numbering.


string $groupList[]=`ls ("house*")`;

for ($x=0; $x<size($groupList); ++$x){
rename ($groupList[$x]) ("tempName"+$x);
}

group -n ("tempName"+(size($groupList))) $obj;

string $groupList[]=`ls ("tempName*")`;

for ($x=0; $x<size($groupList); ++$x){
rename ($groupList[$x]) ("house"+$x);
}


That will correct the numbering for you if you delete lets say 30 54 and 65 out of 100 numberd groups

[mhovland]

I dont remember the correct syntax for adding a number to a string, but I have solved the same problem you have like posted above.


I believe the syntax would be "house#" to increment a number at the end of the name.

[pixlix2]

whooohaa, so simple - it works perfectly! Many many thanks!

And also thanks for the auto renaming script, this will be helpful aswell!



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