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• maclean Posts: 2,438

  October 2012 edited December 1969

  That looks good, Richard. I'll try it.

  Uh... you can save .DSAs in DS 4.5? I didn't know that. Or did you save it in DS3? If so, I wonder why it isn't working for me in DS3. I got no alt geom line at all when I saved a preset.

  mac
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 96,736

  October 2012 edited December 1969

  In 4.5 File>Save as>Deprecated has the full list of the old presets (for now, at least). It's very odd that it isn't working in DS3, though - I thought the real problems didn't start until 4.0 (geoemtry switching wasn't working at all initially, now it is to a limited extent).
• maclean Posts: 2,438

  October 2012 edited December 1969

  Ok. This is becoming ever more mysterious.

  I saved a .DSA Pose Preset in DS 4.5 which works (in DS 4.5), but when I added that same line to the DS 3 preset, it doesn't work in DS 3, but the DS 3 preset works in DS 4.5.

  The line is identical to the one you posted, so it would seem it's correct.

  g_oPresetHelper.setNumericProperty( "Geometry", [ "left_drainpipe_600" ] );

  The script executes normally in DS 3 and gives no errors, so there's no clue why it doesn't work. No DS 3 preset saves the alt geom line. (I'm using DSA 3.1.2.24 32-bit). It's as though this version I have of DS 3 ignores switching geom completely.

  Frankly, I'm baffled and pretty fed up with DS altogether. I think I'm going to have to dump these presets and let the users figure it out for themselves.

  Thanks for the help, Richard.

  mac
• maclean Posts: 2,438

  October 2012 edited December 1969

  Hmmm... I discovered I had a later version of DS 3 - 3.1.2.32, so I installed it - and guess what - the old 1.5 presets now work for switching geom - but the new ones don't. And saved presets still ignore it.

  The only thing I can think of at this point is that it's the figure itself. But I've tried with 4 different figs with alt geom and they're all the same - no preset saves the info. Admittedly, they're old, but a .cr2 hasn't changed much, so I don't see why it's a problem.

  mac
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 96,736

  October 2012 edited December 1969

  Well, it's obvious that DS oddities with geometry switching date back further than I thought - and to be fair, when the item of mine I've been mentioning was exported as a CR2 from DS3 the ERC code didn't work on the root control and I had to repair it (that's the CR2 that was working slightly better than the one for the changing ponytail).
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 96,736

  October 2012 edited December 1969

  Ah, it is possible to get the shape controller (at least when it's slider) to appear in a .duf preset - but you have to change its type from None to one of the known types (I used Modifier/Shape) to do so. And that does then work for me in a saved .duf file. Not that helps you, since you want a general solution that includes older versions, but it does help to pin the details down.
• maclean Posts: 2,438

  October 2012 edited December 1969

  Well, there's no chance of them fixing DS 3 at this point, but since the DS 3 presets work in 4.5, I'll go with them.

  It looks like it's going to take longer to update these 2 products than it took me to build the 3rd one. LOL.

  mac