double name / naming - name clash

[damat]

Haven't really figured out, but:

1. ls -sl -l;
// Result:|group27|polySurface1//

2. string $objects[] = `ls -sl`;
string $parent[] = `listRelatives -parent -f $objects[0]`;
// Result:|group27//

3. if results contain excessive symbols/words, use tokenize function to split and cut them

[martinputtkammer]

hi damat,

thanks for helping.

i didn't know it is possible to query the parents directly.
by using that i should be able to update the paths by constantly refeeding the parents
on renaming, but it'll make for cluttered code.

but it works :). thank you.

martin

[martinputtkammer]

just an addendum:

if you parent 20 objects with the SAME NAME beneath each other, so that every object has exactly one child:

if you then get your selection of all those objects:
my_selection = cmds.ls(sl=1)

every object name will be similar to:
name|name|name|name|name...

if your script then changes one name in the row, then all object paths below that objects
will be broken, because the paths changed.

sometimes it is not possible to update the selection again during script execution:

So:

How do you get a reliable way to get your hierarchy selection updated properly?:
Simple, but effective:

use the "message" info node to link the dag nodes to each other, mimicking the hierarchy they are situated in, then, by tracing the message node connections you can work your way through the hierarchy, even if the names of the objects changed.

other possible approaches:

attach a custom attribute for each object to identify it.

use listRelatives on all the objects, like damat described. can be a pain and slow for
huge hierarchies

martin

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