Hello,
My name is Nicolas and I'm currently a 3D animation senior student at la Cité collégial and one of my final project for my 3D animation technology class is to make a Tool for Maya using Mel.
For say I do have programming knowledge so you don't have to worry to use programming term while explaining to me 🙂
So the point of my tool is to make a Sphere who have a "good" retopology. Since we know that the default maya sphere doesn't respect the 3D topology convention. So I'm making a cube then smooth it. Simple although I want to allow user setting on the number of division etc
and one of the options is to automatically rename sphere based on a convention naming which is :
ObjectName_ObjectNumber_MESH
Doing concatenating is quite simple. Although, I'm stuck to one point.
"How to know how many object of the same name they have in the scene"
I want to be able to count the number of object who share the same name then apply it to the naming.
I do know that Maya does it automatically but the point of the final project is to make a tool work like the way I intended it to be. This the only part where I struggle.
I would be grateful if you can help me for this part
Thanks for your further answer!
Nicolas
