Camera Creation in MEL

[likage]

I am coding some MEL for camera creations, I have encountered an issue that have make me quite lost

I am trying to do something like this:

createNode transform -n "csc_wcam1";
createNode camera -n "csc_wcamShape1" -p "csc_wcam1";

It works during my "testing" but when the name of the node was changed to cater to the actual application, instead of creating the actual camera that I am expecting as in my "testing", I got two nodes creations:

createNode transform -n "csc_X2A-1Q_csc_0290_wcam1";
createNode camera -n "csc_X2A-1Q_csc_0290_wcamShape1" -p "csc_X2A-1Q_csc_0290_wcam1";

and along with a warning : // Warning: line 2: No object matches the parent name: csc_X2A-1Q_csc_0290_wcam1 //

These 2 lines of codes are almost exactly the same but why are the output are so different?

[Marcus Ottosson]

You can’t use - as name for your node.

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[Mahmoodreza Aarabi]

hey

Don't use dash in name "_X2A-1Q_"

instead of dash use underscore "_"

maya itself change dash "-" to underscore "_" and this creates error

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Bests,

madoodia

[likage]

Hey Marcus and madoodia,

Thanks for pointing that out to me.
It was such a noob mistake on my part.

Thank you very much!

Cheers!

On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 5:05:27 PM UTC+8, Marcus Ottosson wrote:

You can’t use - as name for your node.