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lock the start-up scene?

alan bard newcomeralan bard newcomer Posts: 2,227
edited January 21 in Daz Studio Discussion

Occasionally my startup scene gets overwritten ... and I have to go back and recreate it. 
Hmm, mark it read only in windows? Willl try that. 
Wonder if that will force the interface to say I can only save that as a copy or assign a new name? 
Too soon old and to late smart... in the meantime, took my startup scene of choice and copied and pasted it in the folder ... so I can always just rename the copy. 
 

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,155

    I just mark mine as read only in windows.

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 7,707
    edited January 21

    Alternatively, a better way is to use a Script (DSA) rather than a DUF assigned in F2 > Startup tab:  On "Launch" > Load File

    What do folks usually need in a "Startup Scene"? should be nothing but some Presets / some Scene Subset, e.g. Render Settings Preset, Camera Presets, Light Presets, etc. If so, simply add some lines of code into the Script, e.g.

    Scene.loadScene("H:/My DAZ3D Library/Presets/Cameras/!Default for Startup.duf", Scene.MergeFile);
    Scene.loadScene("H:/My DAZ3D Library/Presets/Lights/!Default for Startup.duf", Scene.MergeFile);
    Scene.loadScene("H:/My DAZ3D Library/Presets/Render Settings/!Default for Startup.duf", Scene.MergeFile);
    ...

    In this way, you don't have to deal with the error message of ReadOnly when you occasionally press Ctrl + S, and the default scene file after DS launch always "has no name" as usual, which is adaptive to users' routine behaviors ~~

    Edit: Code corrected.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,027

    crosswind said:

    Scene.loadScene("H:/My DAZ3D Library/Presets/Cameras/!Default for Startup.duf", "MergeFile");

    Surely that should be

    Scene.loadScene("H:/My DAZ3D Library/Presets/Cameras/!Default for Startup.duf", Scene.MergeFile);

    it is an enumertation member of DzScene.

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 7,707

    Richard Haseltine said:

    crosswind said:

    Scene.loadScene("H:/My DAZ3D Library/Presets/Cameras/!Default for Startup.duf", "MergeFile");

    Surely that should be

    Scene.loadScene("H:/My DAZ3D Library/Presets/Cameras/!Default for Startup.duf", Scene.MergeFile);

    it is an enumertation member of DzScene.

    Ah, right ! I wonder where I got that code into my Initial script ~~ haha

    I think for loading Preset, that option doesn't work, so no error was reported. Thanks for the correction !

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