rename duplicate nodes in Maya script?

[David Lawson]

Hey,

Does anyone have a script that will search for and rename duplicate nodes in Maya?

[stephenkmann]

I havn't looked at it, but I bet this would do what you wanted.
finding them is the hard part
renaming is the easy..

( i have my own script but I can't release it) but the trick is
for each in scene
ls "*name*"

hth

-=s

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/misc/c/duplicate-check

[Hamish McKenzie]

there is a method on MFnDependencyNode called "hasUniqueName". just
iterate over all dag nodes in the scene and ask whether it has a
unique name or not.

def iterNonUniqueNames():
iterNodes = MItDag() #NOTE: only dag objects can have non-unique
names... despite the fact that the hasUniqueName method lives on
MFnDependencyNode (wtf?!)

while not iterNodes.isDone():
mobject = iterNodes.currentItem()
if not MFnDependencyNode( mobject ).hasUniqueName():
yield mobject

iterNodes.next()

-h.

[David Lawson]

thanks stephen,

that seemed to work