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Saving self made props

jboydston_jboydston_ Posts: 34
edited December 1969 in New Users

Hey all, I'm a total noob with all this 3d stuff. I'm just messing around with it for the fun of it. Anyway, I recently created a prop from primitives, but I can't save it as a prop. It only let's me save it as a scene. It saves as a prop and even shows up in my prop content window, but will not load. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, please help.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,612
    edited December 1969

    Where did you save it to, and what happens when you try to load it?

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited December 1969

    With Daz Studio. The 'Content Library' can be a complete confusing mess. I've dabbled with 'Exporting' an item completely outside of the daz directory, so I can find it again when I go to import it.

    Thing to remember is that scaling bit. If your making stuff in Studio for use in studio, just leave the export and import scaling at 100%

    Also I like to do the simple thing, and "Save -> Scene Subset", the stuff sometimes appears in the smart content tab, under undefined or something like that at the bottom of the categories.

    I make sure all the stuff is neatly nested (Parents) under a single root item, and when I save it, I make sure just the intended item tree is selected in the save box/window.

    Hope that helps.

  • jboydston_jboydston_ Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    thanks, the single root item might be the problem. I intended the prop to have a sub root that could be posed in different ways, and so I made it its own root inside the main root tree. I'll try it all as one root and see if that fixes it.

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited December 1969

    the servers reset on me last night, in the middle of making an order, and I didn't get a chance to add two pennies to this. No foul done, it just took a bit of time for the servers to sort out. lol.

    I grouped the stone-cube-stack with a root node, to make it easy to move the entire stack around in the scene, after loading them. I made the mistake of leaving them all separate entities, and found moving all six in the stack separately a pain. when setting up the "Casting Reflections" set.
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/40627/

    There is a few threads around that cover importing/exporting and saving scene-subsets (in the daz forum), I just don't remember where they are. Mostly it's a mater of finding the menu items for them, and paying attention to the check-boxes and scaling.

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