Thanks! Works. Appreciate the heads-up on the name update. I would guess it's an ICE thing.
Yeah I've though of using "Reference to String" and have something like String to Binary, but nope. You approach is nice, basically replacing each letter by it's subarray index in the string "~abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890_" and concatenate everything. I remember in another thread a talk Chris_TC talking about a way of avoiding Repeat node, but the talk didn't develop, further. To me it just unexpected that there isn't access to something like ObjectIndex, SceneToObjectIndex or something along those lines. So I guess that Softimage doesn't use any unique indices in its operation but always the object unique name. Cheers
