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Creating Shader files

bluedonkeybluedonkey Posts: 33
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I'm back with another newbie question. I have several image files that I'd like to make as my own shader presets. So I loaded a primitive and applied the textue file via the surfaces tab. When satisfied with the result, I saved it as a shader preset to one of my DAZ format directories. To test it, I opened a different object, made my way to that directory and applied it.  Bingo! It worked like a charm. The next step I took was to open the preset file in a text editor (Notepad++) to see how easily it could be edited. Well, that's where the road ended; the file doesn't open intelligibly, just a screen full of jibberish.  Other user files I have open nicely in a text editor. I'm thinking that creating it in DS codes it so that a text editor is unable to read it. If so, is there a way to create these files so that they can be easily edited?

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    All that's wrong is that they are compressed...you need to manually uncompress them in order to edit them.

    Or, at the bottom of the save dialog box is a check box for compressing them.  Uncheck it and you won't have to worry about it.

  • bluedonkeybluedonkey Posts: 33

    WOW! Just that simple. Con mucho thankos. :O)

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    It's even worse for me...my native text editor will work with zipped text files, so I have to triple check to make sure I'm not compressing them before letting things out into the wild.

  • ToborTobor Posts: 2,300
    mjc1016 said:

    It's even worse for me...my native text editor will work with zipped text files,

    Oooh, ooh! Open source/freeware? Which one? Should I upgrade from EditPad Lite 7? (How old is that ... 10 years, or something like that.)

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Tobor said:
    mjc1016 said:

    It's even worse for me...my native text editor will work with zipped text files,

    Oooh, ooh! Open source/freeware? Which one? Should I upgrade from EditPad Lite 7? (How old is that ... 10 years, or something like that.)

    KATE/Kwrite...seamlessly opens compressed files.

    One of the add-on/replacement Notepad ones can do compresed files, but it does require configuration to do so.

  • ToborTobor Posts: 2,300

    Thanks for the heads up. For some reason, I get errors trying to install KATE. I'll try again later, as it might be a problem on their end.

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