Batch Rename

This custom tool was made while working on my dissertation, the problem I was attempting to solve was that I had to rename a lot of small objects judged that it would save me more time if I wrote a script that renamed them in bulk.

The script's primary functionality is to rename multiple selected objects in Autodesk Maya using a base name provided by the user. Here's how it achieves this:

This script works by storing the selected objects in an array and replacing their name with a name indexed through a for loop that considers the hierarchy of the selection.

The script first captures a base name from the user through a prompt dialog.
Subsequently the script receives a list of currently selected objects in the scene
For each selected object the script generates a numbered suffix to the name according to the hierarchically relative sequential order of the object, this provides both a unique and consistent identifier between the objects in the scene.

This process automates the tedious task of renaming multiple objects individually, making it efficient to handle large numbers of objects with a consistent naming scheme.