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Script for renaming of attachpoint-objects

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Hi all

As we're redoing all lights in our scenery, we don't want to "waste" too much time manually adding attachpoints. We found the little script for renaming effects in the wiki, but of course it doesn't work for objects.
Do you have any idea if it's possible to make a similar script to rename objects instead of effects?

The script from the wiki:

Code: 
strAttachNumber = 0
           for obj in $box* do
           (
           	obj.name = ("attachpt_MyEffectName" + (strAttachNumber as string))
           	strBufferText = ("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?> <FSMakeMdlData version=\"9.0\"><Attachpoint name=\"attachpt_MyEffectName" + (strAttachNumber as string) + "\"> <AttachedObject> <Effect effectName=\"fx_MyEffectName\" effectParams=\"\"/> </AttachedObject> </Attachpoint></FSMakeMdlData>")
           	setUserPropBuffer obj strBufferText
           	strAttachNumber += 1
           )

I think the following part has to be changed:
Code: 
<Effect effectName=\"fx_MyEffectName\" effectParams=\"\"/>

A first try, but doesn't work. Actually I'm a bit confused about the "name", which is the GUID but there has to be another name in it:

Code: 
strAttachNumber = 0
           for obj in $box* do
           (
           	obj.name = ("attachpt_MyEffectName" + (strAttachNumber as string))
           	strBufferText = ("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?> <FSMakeMdlData version=\"9.0\"><Attachpoint name=\"attachpt_MyEffectName" + (strAttachNumber as string) + "\"> <AttachedObject> <LibraryObject name="526FE61F7FA240F1A249807746236CD4" scale="1.0"/> </AttachedObject> </Attachpoint></FSMakeMdlData>")
           	setUserPropBuffer obj strBufferText
           	strAttachNumber += 1
           )



Best Regards

Remo Eugster
 
Hi Remo,

I also made a script for objects for some reason ;-)
The correct replacement line would be

Code: 
<LibraryObject name=\"ABECFD294D1947D7A6998BB948AC4583\" scale=\"0.5\"/>

for the object. Note the additional backslashes that are needed to get the boxes properly compiled by maxScript.

Regards,
Jeff
 
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