Naming vray object properties nodes on creation?

[Intuition]

Is there a way to name the vray object properties node on creation?

I want a way to mel script this so that I can create VrobProp (Vray object properties) nodes based on the selected object they are attached to.

Like if pPlane1 is selected and I apply a VrobProp setup with the right attributes checked for it to be a shadow catcher. So essentially making a little button that is "Make Vray Shadow catcher"

Then the pPlane1 name is applied to the VrobProp when created. This way when i have multiple vrayobject properties nodes in the outliner they don't just appear as

vrayobjectproperties
vrayobjectproperties1
vrayobjectproperties2
vrayobjectproperties3

But rather how I want to see them so they are associated with the objects/groups connected

VrobProp_pPlane1
VrobProp_pSphere1
VrobProp_pPlane2
VrobProp_Wheels_Group

Then I can easily see that the wheels_group will have the motion blur override
The planes are shadow catchers...
.. and the sphere is matte zero.

Even though I would have to click through them at least I can tell at a glance what I attached them to.

Currently I just rename them manually but I wanted a way of naming on creation so that the mel script is easy to track.

I mean I could always

vray objectProperties add_single;
connectAttr vrayobjectproperties1.outConnect vraySettings.vray_nodes_connect -nextAvailable;

Then rename the vrayobjectProperties node. Maybe do a check to see if vrayobjectproperties1,2,3 etc exists.

But.. Is there a flag for naming the vrayobjectproperties on creation?

[t.petrov]

No there is no way to set the name at the creation time at the moment, sorry.

I'm thinking that instead of adding a parameter to allow you to specify the name a better approach is to return the path/name of the created object.
This way we can make add_single and add_multiple to behave similarly. The former will return a single string, the latter will return an array of string.

What do you think? Will this be behaviour be good enough for you?

/Teodor

[Intuition]

Yeah that could work. I mean any data input is fine because we could always catch it in a string $variable[] and end up where we want right?

[t.petrov]

Ok, I've added it to our ToDo and we'll notify you when we've implemented it.
Is this something you need urgently?

[Intuition]

Well, I can work around it for now so not really urgent. Besides I can't implement a new build at the moment. So when it gets implemented I'll start utilizing it at that point.

Thanks.

[Intuition]

Btw, I just noticed that the

vray objectProperties add_multiple;

Does append the transform name to the VrobProp node.

This will be fine for now.

[viktor.kirilov]

The "vray objectProperties add_single/add_multiple" commands now return a string array with the names of the newly created object properties nodes.
You can check it out in the nightly builds

[viktor.kirilov]

For vray 2 you will have to wait till next week for the next nightlies (the 3.0 ones already got this feature)

[Intuition]

Ok, thanks.

Currently I am using am naming the node on creation with the create node command as a workaround.

createNode -name $namedNode VRayObjectProperties;