I am working on creating DS3 compatible versions of my products and I can open the scenes and everything looks great but I can't for the life of me figure out how to save one prop as a prop in the prop library.

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LukeA

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What format is the prop? Are you importing an .OBJ or you have the Poser file?
 

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Both. I can open the Poser file or import the OBJ.

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

LukeA

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Well, if you have a Poser file then it works in Studio, you don't have to do anything. Or am I missing something here?
 

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I take it you want to adjust the surface settings for D|S and then save it for D|S?  You can just save it as a .daz scene file, or you can save a material preset.  If you want to be able to click the .pp2 file and have it automatically load with D|S mat settings in D|S, save the material preset to the Props library with the same name as the .pp2 file, then open the .ds/.dsa file in a text editor and make the following change:

Delete:

function collectNodes( bSelected, bRecurse, bFromRoot ){
      var aRootNodes = new Array;
      var nNodes = bSelected ? Scene.getNumSelectedNodes() : Scene.getNumNodes();
      if( bSelected && nNodes < 1 ){
         MessageBox.warning( "This action requires an item within the scene to be selected.",
         "Selection Error", "OK", "" );
      }
      var oNode;
      for( var n = 0; n < nNodes; n++ ){
         oNode = bSelected ? Scene.getSelectedNode( n ) : Scene.getNode( n );
         if( oNode == undefined ){
            continue;
         }
         
         if( oNode.inherits( "DzBone" ) ){
            if( bFromRoot ){
               oNode = oNode.getSkeleton();
            }
            else if( bRecurse ){
               var oTopNode = oNode;
               while( !oTopNode.inherits( "DzSkeleton" ) ){
                  oTopNode = oTopNode.getNodeParent();
                  if( oTopNode.isSelected() ){
                     oNode = oTopNode;
                  }
               }
            }
         }
         aRootNodes = addToArray( aRootNodes, oNode );
      }
      return aRootNodes;
   }
======================

Replace it with:

function collectNodes( bSelected, bRecurse, bFromRoot ){
      var origNodes, ourNode;
      var n , m;

      if ( getArguments().length == 0 )
         return [];

      origNodes = Scene.getNodeList();
      if ( App.getImportMgr().readFile( getArguments()[0] ) == 0 ) {
         var newNodes =  Scene.getNodeList();
         ourNode = undefined;
         for( n = 0; n < newNodes.length && !ourNode ; n++ ) {
            ourNode = newNodes[ n ];
            for ( m = 0 ; m < origNodes.length && ourNode ; m++ ) {
               if ( ourNode == origNodes[ m ] )
                  ourNode = undefined;
            }
         }
         if ( ourNode )
              return [ ourNode ];
      }
      return [];
   }
=========================================

I'm not sure that will work with DS3 - I haven't tried dissecting a preset saved from there, and the scripting engine has changed so the code will have changed at least somewhat.