Feature request: Renaming constraints and operators

[SebasProulx]

I think it would be nice to be able to rename constraints in XSI. It can get very confusing when you have more then one constraint of the same type on an object.

Instead of having : "posecns" , "posecns[1]", (were you don't even see the [1])
it would be nice to see: "posecns[posecns]" , "posecns1[posecns]"
and you could rename them to: "MyCns[posecns]" , "MyOtherCns[posecns]" ...

Maybe we could have that behavior on operators too?

I know it would be a major change, but tell my what you guys think, and you may have other suggestions. I would like to ear from be people at Softimage.

[mechis]

I think it would be neat to be able to rename/change what's in the bracket. It gets annoying to always have to right click the constraint and "select constraining" to figure out what it's connected to (if there's a better way than doing that, I'd love to hear it... heh).

However, I think the reason why they use the numbers is because if you have multiple constraints (of the same type) and want an object to be 50% affected by each constraint, you do 1/[number in brackets]. They mention this equation in the manual, so that's why I guess they use the numbers.

I don't know why you'd want to rename what's outside the bracket though. MyCns is not more descriptive than just the default naming.

~Mechis

[McNistor]

tracking which objects constrains which, can be easily done in skematic, but what you've proposed wouldn't hurt either.
so yes, it would be nice to be able to do that renaming stuff just for the sake of not leaving the explorer.

[mechis]

Schematic shows that? That's great... I've never really worked in the schematic view before. Thanks for the tip.
~Mechis

[SebasProulx]

I don't know why you'd want to rename what's outside the bracket though. MyCns is not more descriptive than just the default naming.


"MyCns" is just an example, I would use a name to tell me what's the use of that constraint or something , like I would do with any other object.