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  • Published 29 Feb 2024

Custom naming conventions for Left and Right suffix/prefix

in blender you can name identify bones with left and right suffixes/prefixes, like .l .r ; _left _right ; LEFT RIGHT, etc. see naming conventions: docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/animation/armatures/bones/editing/naming.html the naming convention is usefull for mirroring and flipping names. mirror animations and skinning weights

the issue we found is that this works only with a few different words and we can't set custom names for left and right. we often make control rigs and animations for armatures that already exist in a game engine and we can't change the already chosen naming convention ( lf_ rt_ ). we have been usign a work arround by using the batch rename, but sometimes this catches part of bone name and causes issues. also we go back and forth with exporting and reimporting several rigs and this option takes a lot of time and is a point of failure. also this would be useful for use in different languages, (_der _izq ; .gauche .droite; etc)
The proposal is to have a dialog box in the animation tab in the properties to add different left and right naming conventions. this can also have front back and top bottom for easy auto naming.

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rubenadrianoyarce
29 Feb 2024

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ezez

Bare minimum there should be an option to set the separator character, I don't like to work with "." as separator, it feels like an odd choice, as dot is usually used as a separator for file extension is Windows systems, since MS-DOS era. I'd make it ASAP "_" if there was an option.

If batch rename isn't enough, I've simply used some simple Python scripts to rename my objects. Blender has really limited amount of settings related to how it operates.

And having option to define suffixes for sides would be great too - there are way too many opinionated ways of doing things in Blender - instead, IMO Blender should have a big list of options the user can select from, so that the system works like they want, and does whatever they want.

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go882

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