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Clean Up Your C4D Projects with Plus Renamer

Rename objects, materials, layers, and takes in seconds. Plus Renamer helps you organize scenes with smart patterns and tokens.

by Greyscalegorilla on May 27, 2025

Ever open a Cinema 4D file and see a wall of “Cube.1”, “Material.2”, or “Null 56”? Yeah, we’ve all been there. Messy naming slows everything down, whether you’re mid-project or passing it off to a teammate or client. That’s why we made Plus Renamer.

Finally, a Smarter Way to Rename Stuff in C4D

Plus Renamer started as an internal tool. We needed something to help us stop wasting time and start organizing faster. After a year of production use, it’s now ready for you.

Built into the Plus Library, Renamer is a simple but powerful batch renaming plugin for Cinema 4D. You can quickly rename objects, materials, layers, and takes using smart tokens and patterns that just make sense. It’s straightforward, it’s fast, and it just works.

What Makes Plus Renamer So Useful?

We didn’t just want a renaming tool. We wanted one that actually saved time and didn’t feel clunky. Renamer is fast, flexible, and built to handle real workflow pain points.

Here’s what it can do:

Rename selected items in one click
Use smart tokens like:
- $name – Keeps the original name
  New_$name becomes New_Cube
- $type – Inserts the item type (Object, Material, Layer, or Take)
  $type_## becomes Object_01, Object_02
- ## – Adds zero-padded index numbers
  Asset_## becomes Asset_01, Asset_02
- $abc / $ABC – Adds alphabetical sequences (lowercase or uppercase)
  Tile_$abc becomes Tile_a, Tile_b, Tile_c
  Mat_$ABC_Texture becomes Mat_A_Texture, Mat_B_Texture
Match and Replace names

How to Use It

Renamer lets you clean house in seconds. Rename everything consistently, so your scenes are readable, maintainable, and ready for handoff.

Open Plus Renamer from the Plus Library menu inside C4D
Select your targets (Objects, Materials, Layers, or Takes)
Set your naming pattern
Click the corresponding Rename pattern

That’s it. No fuss. And if you change your mind, simply undo it.

We Built This for Us. Now It’s Yours.

Plus Renamer is part of a growing set of workflow plugins and scripts we’ve built to fix the real pain points in Cinema 4D. And it’s available now inside the Greyscalegorilla HUB. If you’re a Plus member, just open the HUB, install or update, and you’ll see Renamer under the Plugins tab in Cinema 4D.

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