Del. Scenes

dholm

How do I safely (without breaking or messing things up) del scenes that I have made (test 1 ect.) That I no longer want or do not work because I broke something in the past while trying to learn news things?

refsocrd1_aefdbd2b3a

dholm said:

How do I safely (without breaking or messing things up) del scenes that I have made (test 1 ect.) That I no longer want or do not work because I broke something in the past while trying to learn news things?

If you are referring to scenes in the MyLibrary>Scene folder, then delete away, they have no impact on anything else.

If you are referring to scenes that are part of content pack. I'd say leave them alone.

Something else you might want to consider is archiving the scenes for later use.
Put em on a backupdrive, cloud storage, what ever. come back to them in a couple months(or years) and you might just get some inspiration.

I've got over 1500 scenes and another 1000 subsets just on my primary drive.
MOst are throw aways, but every once in a while i'll scan through and just find something that says "work on me".

Just my style though.

Just tossed a bunch of relights from, in some cases, over a year ago, Up on deviant.
Now that i have a better understanding of lighting, my results are a bit more consistent, and a lot better.

SO it's fun to see where i've come from and where i'm at.

dholm

Thanks refsocrd1 it was so simple I overlooked it. How Do I move the items over to a flash drive and back when I want to use them again? Inside DAZ or in Windows? After taking a very long break I find out why my seen would not load. I made a green light and saved it as a sub set. The icon was labed I think green light and it was marked on top Lights. Is there a way to see if I still have on my computer? I will know the name when I see it but I do not know the name to do a search. If I do have it how do I get it back? I do not remember the numbers but it was a lighter shade if green.I can not post the Icon that show the color because all the scenes that I used the light on where nudes.

refsocrd1_aefdbd2b3a

dholm said:

Thanks refsocrd1 it was so simple I overlooked it. How Do I move the items over to a flash drive and back when I want to use them again? Inside DAZ or in Windows? After taking a very long break I find out why my seen would not load. I made a green light and saved it as a sub set. The icon was labed I think green light and it was marked on top Lights. Is there a way to see if I still have on my computer? I will know the name when I see it but I do not know the name to do a search. If I do have it how do I get it back? I do not remember the numbers but it was a lighter shade if green.I can not post the Icon that show the color because all the scenes that I used the light on where nudes.

SInce you're using a windows machine, Just plug in the jump drive, and drag and drop the file to the drive.

Any scene you are interested in saving, Left click with the mouse over the icon, within daz, and select Browse to File Location,
It'll open an explorer window and show all the scene files in that directory.
Just select the DUF File, and The png, Drag to the Jump drive and it's done.
The PNG is required if you want to see the preview in daz, or explorer(switch to thumbnail view to see it).

If you saved it as a SUB-set, it should be in the SUb sets directory under MY library(My documents>Daz 3d>MyLIbrary>Scenesubset)
Unless you saved else where.

If the Light was used in a scene, you should be able to recover the light from the scene itself.
If not you'll probably have to search through the MY library folder.

Hope that helps

dholm

refsocrd1 thank you. That is where my lights where. When I was repairing my database the unassigned tab in smart content was empty. I have been finding things in my content tab.