SeithCG

Respecting consistent and logical naming conventions early in the project will spare you a lot of headaches later on, whether when tracking down a naming mistake somewhere, or when writing scripts to automate things up.

Prefixes:

• L_= left side
• R_= right side

Suffixes:

• _SRF = nurbs surface
• _MSH = polygon mesh
• _CRV = nurbs curve
• _JNT = joint that is not at the end of a chain
• _END = joint at the extremity of a chain
• _ZERO = node used to keep the transformations of the nodes below it at 0
• _TOPZERO = node always containing a ZERO node for the same purpose
• _GRP = group
• _LOC = locator
• _IK = IK handle
• _CON = control
• _CLT = cluster
• _WIR = wire deformer
• _EXP = expression
• _MDN = multiply/divide node

Important: Note that each element of the name is separated by a “_” character. e.g.: L_shoulder_JNT Or L_thumb_END

Also, the reasons why I use capitals (“L_” and not “l_”) are:

1. With some fonts, the lower case letter “l” can look like the number “1” or the letter “i”.
2. It can greatly facilitate your task when searching/replacing through a script.

Anyways, I’m sure you’ll come up with your own rules…