Preferences and Troubleshooting

Issues in Blender Version 4.1 and earlier

In Blender version 4.1 and earlier, there’s a known issue where the preview text (highlighted at the picture below) doesn’t update in real-time as you type.

RIn.Rename Blender 4.2 Operator Window > `Preview renamed texts`

To work around this, you can disable the preview text and instead rely on the Heads-Up Display (HUD) in the bottom-left corner of the 3D view.

Preferences

Naming Tab

Reset Numbering on each collection

This setting allows you reset the numbering on each collection, it affects the numbering in your input (you need to have numbers in the text input eg: ‘name_01’)

Reset Numbering on each collection Example

Numbering Format

The Separator and Number of Zeros settings let you customize the numbering format. By default, it follows Blender’s format (.001), but you can change it to _01, -0001.

Example:

Input:

Separator:

Number of zeros:

Result:

$ Expressions

RIn.Rename Preferences > Naming > $ to ignore

These two settings ($ to ignore left and $ to ignore right) let you customize how the $ token expands.

By default, $ removes any non-alphanumeric characters from the beginning and end of a name. However, these settings allow you to specify additional characters to remove, making it useful for automatically stripping common naming patterns like GEO_, _GRP, _HI, or _LO.

Both settings accept regular expressions, and you can define multiple patterns by separating them with commas.

To make an expression case-insensitive, add /i at the end.

Default Expressions in Rin.rename:

$ to ignore left: geo[-_]+\i
$ to ignore right: [-_ .]+(hi|low|lo)\i,[-_ .]+grp$\i

User Settings

The Save/Load/Open User Settings options in the preferences let you store your custom settings in a configuration file named user-config.json, located in the add-on directory.

The json files looks like this:

{
    "hotkey": [
        "F2",
        0,
        0,
        0
    ],
    "display_hud_above_object": 0,
    "display_hud_left_corner": 1,
    "display_object_viewport_name": 1,
    "display_preview_text": 1,
    "display_selection_order": 0,
    "HUD_font_color": [
        0.3,
        1,
        1,
        1
    ],
    "HUD_font_size": 20,
    "separator": ".",
    "num_of_zeros": 3,
    "reset_numbering_on_each_collection": 1,
    "dollar_token_to_ignore_left": "geo[-_]+\\i",
    "dollar_token_to_ignore_right": "[-_ .]+(hi|low|lo)\\i",
    "csv_application_path": ""
}

This feature allows you to back up and restore your preferences. If you reinstall the add-on, your settings will reset to the defaults (you will lose your user settings).

By using Load User Settings, you can easily recover your previously saved configurations from the JSON file.

Error Reporting

If you encounter bugs or unexpected issues, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The more details you provide, the easier it will be for me to troubleshoot:

✅ Console error messages
✅ Screenshots (if necessary) ✅ Videos (if necessary)

I’ll do my best to respond promptly.

How to enable console logging:

Run Blender from the console (command line).
Enable the “Enable Console Logging” option in the add-on preferences to display helpful debugging information.

RIn.Rename Preferences > Enable Console Logging

Suggestions & Ideas Welcome!

Got feedback? Ideas for new features? Or just not happy with how something works? I’d love to hear from you!

📧 Email me directly
💬 Comment on my YouTube video
📝 Post on the Blender Artists thread 💻 Join the discussion on my Discord channel

Your input helps make RinRename better!

Future Works / Todo

Just some ideas, not yet commited:

~~New command to convert numbering format~~ [NOV2025]
~~Search and replace feature ability to ignore case for the search text (eg. search/ will match Search or SearCH)~~ [NOV2025]
Simple expression for in search and replace
Type token? (Light, Geo, Lattice, grp, etc)
Rename vertex groups
Rename textures, materials
Rename all instead of selected
Rename everything in a collection without having to select the objects
Improve +text@position to support negatif numbers, and get dynamic position using regular expressions
Make @ more flexible: to be able to use lowercase, to be able to start from a specific Alphabets
Invert word and number token !~1 (every word except the first one?)
etc…