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Saving Props

ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
in Daz Studio Discussion

This has always bugged me and I never found an answer.

I use a lot of OBJ objects that I make in Blender. And sometimes I have one of those objects parented to another of those objects. For example, a spotlight housing with a movable bulb object inside, and the bulb is parented to the housing. 

And I want to save that as a Prop in D|S. Now apparently you save a Prop as a Support Asset/, then Figure/Prop Asset. But it only saves the parent object, not both. I then made the major mistake of saving the selected spotlight objects as a Support Asset/, then Scene Asset. Big mistake. It proceeded to save every single object in my scene in a separate folder, not just the selected spotlight objects.

So what's the secret? 

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  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    Sorry I can't offer advice but I am interested to see the responses. I've been tempted to make some props myself but am clueless on all the different save-as combinations. I also wonder whether there is a difference if the prop is rigged - I know it has to be rigged in DAZ Studio not Blender but does it make a difference as to how it is saved?

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    marble said:

    Sorry I can't offer advice but I am interested to see the responses. I've been tempted to make some props myself but am clueless on all the different save-as combinations. I also wonder whether there is a difference if the prop is rigged - I know it has to be rigged in DAZ Studio not Blender but does it make a difference as to how it is saved?

    Dunno. However, thanks for the years-old post you made showing how to set a keyboard shortcut to zero selected items pose. I was looking all over to see how to do that or make a script, and finally stumbled on your post. Quick and easy. Now I just hit "Z" and BAM !!!  

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,252

    File>Save As>Support Assets>Scene Assets.

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
    edited February 2021

    Richard,

    Thanks, but as I said (and I just tried it again with a minimal scene) it saves ALL scene objects, not just the selected ones, in a new folder it makes in the Content Library. 

    Post edited by ebergerly on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,252

    I thought it did give an opportunity to seelct, but if not save a Scene subset with just the items you want and then save Scene Assets from that.

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    Cool, thanks.

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