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Creating, Copying, Saving, Merging?

DekeDeke Posts: 1,631
edited December 1969 in New Users

I can't get the hang of Daz...it seems to counter-intuitive. For instance, I create or customize a model in one file, and would love to copy it and paste it into a new file. Doesn't seem to be possible.

I researched this a bit and found that I can use merge to bring one model into another file. That worked, but then I went back to the original file and it now has all the changes as well. What gives?

How can I create a charter using Genesis, and various shaping, clothes, hair, etc. and then import that character into various files?

Comments

  • SylvanSylvan Posts: 2,711
    edited December 1969

    The files need to have their own saved names.
    Like this:
    Load a horse save it as "Mr. Ed"
    Load a cat in a new window and name that one "Mittens"
    Now go to the menu and merge "Mr. Ed" with "Mittens"
    If you save this one as "Mr Ed & Mittens" You will have 3 different saved files with all figures intact.

    I hope I made any sense at all :)

  • DekeDeke Posts: 1,631
    edited December 1969

    Thanks. I thought that's what I was doing, but maybe I didn't save the new file before merging in the other one. I had one file "Monster" and opened a new file, merged in "monster" and made some changes and save it as "haunted house." Then I went back to the original "Monster" file and found it is now identical to "haunted house." Strange that the changes to one file affected the original.

  • SylvanSylvan Posts: 2,711
    edited December 1969

    Sounds like you indeed either didn't renamed it after merging or accidently overwrote it somehow.

  • DekeDeke Posts: 1,631
    edited December 1969

    I think the best way is to do a "save as" rather than merge. But there are a lot of options under save as to learn....scene, scene subset, character preset...quite confusing. Lots to learn. Thanks for the help.

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