How to save a daylight environment Tweet

[orion_uk]

@orion_uk: thanks for helping out

NP t_3, just giving back (as best I can) to a community thats been so helpful to me

PS: If anyone feels like helping me then I have a question here viewtopic.php?f=11&t=30488 about my new graphics card and power input
I am off out now but will check for any kind replys later, Thanks in advance

[rojharris]

OK, after much testing I am still having problems with the daylight environment being remembered. If I do this:

- Load a new empty scene, then hit F12 to open octane controls then go to lights tab
- Create a copy of 'default daylight' and open map view and change pointer (which is now in germany) to, say, California (or anywhere really).
- change the month, day, hour settings too and north offset just for good measure.
- save scene.
-close Daz (not necessary but just to clear memory etc)
-Open Daz and load saved scene.

I now find that my copy environment is there, but all the sliders are reset and the map has put me back in Germany...
Try to merge environment scene with new scene same happens.

Basically I cannot find any workable way of saving my daylight setup other than having to write down all the values and re-adjust every time.

Am I doing something wrong?

Cheers
Roger

[t_3]

Basically I cannot find any workable way of saving my daylight setup other than having to write down all the values and re-adjust every time.

Am I doing something wrong?

Cheers
Roger

it doesn't sound like you are doing something wrong. and i was not able to reproduce this. imo it would be a good idea, if you send me a few scenes with changed environment settings of any kind.

say, only changed the type, changed type and a few settings here and there, only changed a few settings, having a copy, AND all this in scenes with a little content in it, or just empty secnes.; btw, i can't exactly tell if there was some misunderstanding previously, but it is not needed to create a copy to save the settings. everyt environment in the ddbox will (should) hold it's own settings, and all together should get saved and recalled. same with the render settings...

[orion_uk]

Basically I cannot find any workable way of saving my daylight setup other than having to write down all the values and re-adjust every time.

I will have another play with it too, I also have noticed some changes not saved (later down the line) but gave priority to other things happening at the time :p

[rojharris]

Okee Dokee.

Here's a scene with just a sphere.

Opened and changed daylight to:
long: -120
lat: 36
day: 15
month: 4
gmt offset: 7
hour: 15
turbidity: 2
power: 1
North offset: -0.13

Saved file.
Reopened file and get attached, i.e. back to default values??

[t_3]

O K .

i now can see it. feel it. the daylight settings are reset to octane defaults - which are different than the plugin defaults, because the plugin defaults are tweaked to give a nice starter setting for the default daz camera view.

and i must admit, while testing this myself lately, i didn't exactly look at the real numbers, only noticing they were not the defaults that i was expecting so took it for "saved - ok" ... also this was already working (major bug) - my bad - sorry!!!

but i noticed something else in your scene what i don't really like can you please just open DS, save a scene and send it again? and tell me how much entries the environments ddbox and the render settings ddbox each have...
[edit]: you can skip this - i just merged the scene instead loading it (by dropping it instead file > open), so i of course saw more entries than expected

[rojharris]

Thanks for looking into this for me t_3. Good to know its not just me

[t_3]

Thanks for looking into this for me t_3. Good to know its not just me

yes... sry! this is of course already on the "to fix" list for the next update... since i still collect things, i have no exact eta, but i try to provide at least one update a week until the annoying things currently known are fixed...

[orion_uk]

No worries t_3, your doing a cracking job with this plugin and I for one am most grateful for your continued efforts

[t_3]

No worries t_3, your doing a cracking job with this plugin and I for one am most grateful for your continued efforts

i buy a "c" and a "k", sell a "s" and a "h" instead
hope all the people quietly plagued from crashes will forgive me that a do jokes with that...