Clean Namespaces (MEL Function)

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This is a small tips for clear all namespaces in the maya scene. First copy the script bellow and save it as “bc_CleanAllNameSpace.mel” in any of your user script folder. Or you can download the script from here

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global proc string bc_CleanAllNameSpace()
{
string $bcReadOnlyNode[];
 
string $bcAllObjects[];
int $bcIndex;
 
$bcAllObjects = `ls -allPaths`;
$bcIndex = 0;
for($bcObject in $bcAllObjects)
{
$bcNewName = bc_CleanNameSpace($bcObject);
if(catchQuiet(`rename $bcObject $bcNewName`))
{
stringArrayInsertAtIndex($bcIndex, $bcReadOnlyNode, $bcObject);
$bcIndex++;
}
}
print $bcReadOnlyNode;
return "All the namespaces in the scene are cleaned";
}
 
global proc string bc_CleanNameSpace(string $bcNodeName)
{
string $bcBuffer [];
string $bcNewName;
$bcBufferLen = `tokenize $bcNodeName ":" $bcBuffer`;
 
if($bcBufferLen > 1)
{
return $bcBuffer[$bcBufferLen - 1];
}
else
{
return $bcNodeName;
}
return "Its Not working";
}

Create a shelf button using the following commands.

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source bc_CleanAllNameSpace.mel;
bc_CleanAllNameSpace();

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Barish Chandran

Have got over 12 years of experience in Animation and VFX industry in Particle Effects, Lighting and Programming areas. I started my animation career as Dynamic FX artist and I have credit in more than 30 movie and CGI Series. Then started developing tools and programs for Animation. Now am working as Pipeline Software Developer Lead at MPC.

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