Building Interface Problem - SOLVED

Alowe49

Hi,

Software - Windows 10 - Daz Studio 4.11
I want to stop my render destination folder filling-up with icon.png's
Only happens in the main folder not in sub-folders - so not being created by Windows.
icon.png's only created while Building Interface is active at Daz start-up, not after each render.
Windows 7 did not have this problem - anyone know how to stop this?

TheKD

As far as I know, the only thing I did to stop it was pick a new location for the renders to go. I think if you use the default it will always make them. I told it to put my renders on desktop and it stopped making them. It's generating the icons for people that use the render library tab.

Alowe49

Re- TheKD - Sorry but failed to mention - I hail from Daz 3 days and have always used the same Studio3 folder for renders (not the default) through 3 versions of Windows and lost count of Daz Studio versions.

TheKD

Oh darn. Maybe it's a win10 thing, I upgraded win10 back to win7 after a few months. Win10 sucked so bad for me. Hogs resources for crap I don't want or need, handles VRAM like crap. Would drop to CPU in the middle of renders regularly, only time I ever have that crap happen in win7 is if the gpu driver crashes, which is pretty rare.

Richard Haseltine

If the folder is set as a Render Library in DS it wll get the thumnbnails from DS. If you open the Render Library pane then its options menu (the lined button n the tp corner, or right-click the tab) wll give access to the Render Directory Manager; you must have one, but point it to a folder that doesn't hold images. You can chnage the save method of the render window by clicking little picture button next to the library name at the bottom and selecting the folder icon instead.

TheKD

Yeah, now that you mention it, I remember the time I switched my render library to desktop one time. Cleaning up that mess was fun. I keep reference images and textures I am using currently etc on my desktop. I had to keep using the sort by feature and deleting icons, as there was so many generated that they were hidden offscreen in space somewheres lol.

Alowe49

Building Interface Problem - Solved

I had to look for information on the Render Directory Manager and found a similar version of Richard Haseltine's answer posted by Lindsey back in 2015.

So this is the simplified version of what I did -

Windows>Panes(tabs)>Render Library - Left Click Options menu and select the Render Directory Manager. Select Curent Directories Base Path - and from left menu Remove All. Accept - and all is now well.

Many thanks for the help.