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vaaernvaaern Posts: 81
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Hi,

I'm not sure how to title this (English is not my first language), so hopefully this is fine. I've been wondering this for a while, but can't seem to find the right words to look this up.

Often when I load a scene from a product, it will load up with all props and render settings, but then when you press the 'save' button, it will automatically see that as a 'save as...' option, even though there is already a title given to that scene. I wonder how that is done. I have a few scenes I use over and over again, but I sometimes forget to press save as, which then gives me a lot of work because I have to load everything up and remove/reset the scene how it was before.

Hopefully I'm in the correct forum for this :)

Cheers!

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  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,484

    Save as a scene subset, this allows you to save which asset in a scen you wish and can load the scene without merging.

  • vaaernvaaern Posts: 81

    But this does not load the render settings? Or did I miss that option.

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    A better option would be to get into the habit of using keyboard shortcuts and saving early.   On Windows Ctrl+Shift+S allows you to Save As, and Ctrl+S is to save with the same name, overwriting the original.

    When you open a prepared scene, whether it comes with a product or it's one of your own you want to change while keeping the original, get into the habit of immediately Saving As a new scene, so you don't mistakenly overwrite the original later.

     

  • vaaernvaaern Posts: 81

    Yeah, I'm not a big shortcut user :p I'll try to adjust. But I still wonder how some of these scenes in products work, I can't seem to find anything in Daz itself to make it work.

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310
    vaaern said:

    Yeah, I'm not a big shortcut user :p I'll try to adjust. But I still wonder how some of these scenes in products work, I can't seem to find anything in Daz itself to make it work.

    Some scenes come with render settings.  Some have separate settings, especially if they come with different cameras or day and night versions.

    Every product is different.  You'll need to specify which product you're having what issue with, preferably with a link to the product page.  Put the name of the product in your thread title and you'll normally get suggestions how to work things out.

  • jjmainorjjmainor Posts: 490
    It could be the preloaded scene was origionally saved on a different build than what you're using. I use both the public and pro builds. Whenever I create a scene and save it in one version, then load it in the other version, I always get "save as" when I hit "save."
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,805

    You will get the file dialogue if the Author of the scene does not match the Author set in DS (or if there is no author set) - that's in the first tab of Edit>Preferences, Daz Studio>Preferences for a Mac.

  • cajhincajhin Posts: 154

    If you don't change your default scenes often, just set them to read-only (in file explorer, right-click, properties, read only).

    That way you'll get a warning if you forget to save as

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