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[solved] Naming thumbnails of products

lina.catfishlina.catfish Posts: 64
edited September 11 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

If I save a product (that's the correct term for the over all category for things, isn't it? Shaders, poses... all this?) DAZ saves a preview image and name it --PRODUCTNAME.duf.png--.

I want to change that. I want it to name the file PRODUCTNAME.png and use it as a thumbnail.

How can I achieve this?

Somewhere there was a discussion about this naming and the NAME.duf.png also seems to cause problems. Unfortunately I did not find the discussion thread again. Do you remember which problems are connected with this naming convention? Information about this would also helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Post edited by lina.catfish on

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  • felisfelis Posts: 6,523

    Change it under Preferences > Content.

  • lina.catfishlina.catfish Posts: 64

    Thanks for the quick answer yesterday. Unfortunately, I can't find it there. 'Content' offers some display options and many more loading options to change as well as directory management. But nothing that promises saving, exporting or file type... things. Can you give a hint: What do you call exactly what I'm looking for?

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 10,281

    It's under F2 > Content tab > Thumbnail Saving,  set to:  Use inclusive thumbnail extension. 

    SNAG-2026-9-8 0002.png
    766 x 674 - 62K
  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 2,147

    What I'd prefer is the duf.png file be the size of the tip.png file and then not have the tip file. I doubt it saves processing time to have them at separate sizes given the small sizes of 91x91 vs 256x256.

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 10,281
    edited September 8

    Unfortunately DS gives no option of "Post Save" otherwise we can easily insert a script there to raplace .png with .tip.png.

    But still, Daz Scripts can do it by save / save as firstly, then replace .png with .tip.png and delete .tip.png. Then replace default actions of Save / Save As with the scripts + custom shortcuts ~~

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  • lina.catfishlina.catfish Posts: 64

    crosswind said:

    It's under F2 > Content tab > Thumbnail Saving,  set to:  Use inclusive thumbnail extension. 

    Problem detected, many thanks for your help!

    And about the thumbnail size: Where and how the thumbnails are displayed is a routine (script...) from DAZ itself. Currently, it contains a query of the size. DAZ is open source. Someone with much more experience should be able to delete this query. Or copy + modify the current saving process.

    (I'll declare the request solved tomorrow or so. Maybe someone will find an answer to the size problem.)

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,071

    Must admit I tend to use 512x512, 256x512 or 512x256 thumbnail images. Reason being that with current monitors getting up into the 200ppi range, even 256x256 tip images show as being quite small (1.25" square - about the size of an original Poser thumbnail in Poser 4 with a CRT monitor) and the 91px square thumbnail is a ridiculous size to keep with in this day & age.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 2,147

    That's my point. There's no point to having two sized icons and it's the 91x91 images that should be removed.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,459
    edited September 8

    In fact there is a processing overhead for a folder with many files, and so thumbnails. Also the images can be different (not when auto-generated, of course, but the tip files are theer - as the name implies - to be used for simple tips when the user hovers over the file, which would not downsample well.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
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