I've just spent a bunch of time tweaking a sky in Carrara, and I wanted to save it as a preset like I can in Bryce, but it doesn't look to be possible. I thought it might save under scene effects in the browser, but I can't find a way to do it. Is there a way to add it to the list of presets? Any suggestions? -Jeff

Save the whole file for now just to be safe (I'm hoping you already did).

Wow! Nobody ever had an answer for this? So much for me looking for the answer via the search engine! I've been doing the same thing in C5Pro tonight. Fiddling with a sky to get it how I want it and clicking the little floppy icon on the atmosphere to save it to my library as a cbr file and selecting atmosphere but when I go to reload it there's no sky thumbnail and it doesn't load.

Hope this makes clear. Just save to a file folder of your choice and access from there when needed.

Brian

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That's what I did Brian but the sky doesn't seem to save properly and there's no rendered thumbnail. I'm using C5Pro at the moment. Maybe I need to reinstall it.

Here's what I see in my presets after I save a sky. I've tried in C5Pro and C6Pro so far. I've tried saving under the program parent directory and on a completely different hard drive thinking maybe Vista wasn't allowing it to save thumbnails within Program Files directory. Still not working.

Nevermind. I got my answer over at DAZ. CBR files don't automatically save with thumbnails.

I have some purchased skies that I would like to have thumbnails for in the browser.  Anyone know how to manually do that?

Klebnor

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There maybe some confusion. Both cbr and car files can be saved w/ thumbs, Just save a car file ,which is a scene file as a preset. Perfect for a sky.
Easiest place is to save them as a car file, w/ comments and a preview under the my presets directory under my documentss/daz /carrara. (on windows) Then just go to your scene tab if you need to to make sure that folder is added to the browser. Think it is by default, but not sure if there is a my scenes folder. I think I made this to go under that my docs, then added it to the browser so I can put scene presets there. It's not hard just a bit manual.

Previews have to be saved w/ that option checked for the file.

Keep in mind that the C browser is particular about what file goes on what tab. The misc tab is a bit more flexible. But you can add a folder or update the info. If a folder is added and you see it listed in the treeside, but nothing is showing on the view side of the browser you have the file in the wrong category.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.