[Closed] Auto Pick Script

Then you should definitely have a look at callbacks.
These allow your script to be called whenever something in the scene changes (depends on what you choose ofcourse). Have a look and post back what you tried!

Goodluck,
-Johan

You could also do this with a mouse tool probably… just active the tool, and then start clicking objects, should be pretty straightforward to have it to the renaming on click.

This is a test, but i don’t know now change the “stop” function “IF i>10” DO EXIT”, exemple how can i stop the recursive autorename with right clic ?

macroScript AutoReName category:"MyTool" tooltip:"AutoReName"
(
local i=0
while true do
	(
	obj = pickObject()
	obj.name = "name_" + i as string
	messageBox ("obj picked: " + obj.name) -- this is only a test, i'll delete
	i+=1
	if i>10 do exit -- i want a different exit, exemple with a right clic....
	)
)

I john
look at this example:

obj=pickobject()
i=0
while obj!=undefined then
(
	i+=1
-- do something

	obj=pickobject()
)

If you just want to increment the number at the end of the name, you can just use the “uniqueName” command.

$.name = uniqueName "bob_"

Renames the selected object “bob_001”. If you run it again on another object, it will be named “bob_002”.

And if you’re using Max 2011, there’s a new parameter that controls the number of digits to use:

uniqueName "bob_" numDigits:4

This would give you “bob_0001” instead of “bob_001”.

Very interesting but is only an exemple, the real name is:

		Cpx = formattedPrint CpxCount format:"02i"
		Str = formattedPrint StrCount format:"02i"
		Num = formattedPrint NumCount format:"03i"
		obj.name = "Cpx"+Cpx + "_Str"+ Str + "_Obj" + Num + "_1"

i make a tool that work well but someone can suggest me something better?