[SOLVED] Spawning an Animal with a Nickname

[TranceBlossom]

Hello there, I'm new to modding RimWorld, but I'm trying to fix a bug in the RimConnect mod which integrates RimWorld to Twitch chat. When a viewer buys an animal, the animal is spawned via drop pod and is named after the user that bought it. The following code in this file does the renaming, where "boughtBy" is the Twitch username of the viewer:

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Pawn newAnimal = PawnGenerator.GeneratePawn(itemDef.race.AnyPawnKind, Faction.OfPlayer);
                if(boughtBy != "Poll")
                {
                    newAnimal.Name = new NameTriple("", boughtBy, "");
                }
This appears to work, but if you try to rename the animal after, you get an error that "The chosen name is invalid". and I suspect it's because NameTriple was intended for humans with a First Name, Nickname, and Last Name, and not animals, or perhaps there needs to be a default name like "Cat 1" that remains somewhere.

Does anyone know how the system for setting animal nicknames works, or how I might go about fixing this?

EDIT: Setting the animal name with NameSingle was the key:

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Pawn newAnimal = PawnGenerator.GeneratePawn(itemDef.race.AnyPawnKind, Faction.OfPlayer);
                if(boughtBy != "Poll")
                {
                    newAnimal.Name = new NameSingle(boughtBy);
                }