My scene is broken again

James

My scene is broken again

I've set everything up.
I rendered it.
Somehow DAZ rendered the wrong view.
not the one on the viewport.
I get confused.
I saved.
I closed DAZ.
I opened DAZ and reopened the scene.
The scene just messed up.
Basically the all keyframes on the frame I worked on and some other frames were just gone. Only a little left.

I don't understand why it's happened.
It's the second time it happened.

Is DAZ have an autosave lock somewhere?
Cos the scene I've worked for hours just Poof!

frank0314

As for the wrong angle issue, be sure that you are looking through and setting the proper camera for the render. To my knowledge, there is no autosave unfortunately which I hope they institute one eventually. You can save a preset once you get everything set up to your liking that way you can go back to any one scene you set up at any time along the timeline if you want to change something.

Saxa -- SD

As for DAZ rendering wrong view. Been doing DS - animating for years and I have never-ever had wrong view rendered.  I rarely use default camera for animations ie. perspective view, so no idea.  Perspective camera in anims is handy because you can't keyframe that so do whatver. Any other camera auto-keyframes.

Do yourself a huge favor, and for now, save lots to different files by adding extensions to filename, like simple *_1.duf *_2.duf etc.

Then at least each save is different and growing as you add. Saving all to one file constantly is dangerous if your doing lot and lots of things.  Especially until you get figured out what is happening.

Do know that DS undo stack will get borked over time with beta version 4.21.1.48, so that sometimes if suddenly undoes a bunch of stuff, and not others.  Or does on my system.  Load fresh scene fixes that.  Usually i notice. Occasional undos were stunning in what disappeared.  But when that happens I do not save.  Just exit. You just over time know what to watch for.  This is where frequent manual saves (becomes a habit)  is a friend.  Rarely do i have to revisit a past sequential save-scene nowadays as noted above.  But while learning DAZ ins and outs - it saved my behind on a few occasions.

Would as a final note, suggest trying a different DS version and see if that happens as well. If using reg DS, then use Beta, or vice versa.  Computers and an installed software aren't always 100% reliable.  Speaking from deep experience here.  There's a reason game vendors have a verify file system integrity.