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Daniel BarnettDaniel Barnett Posts: 389
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I have three folders for Shaders - can they all be moved into one folder with breaking anything?
Thanks
dbb

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  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    What are the folders called, obviously they cannot all be called 'Shaders' or they could not co-exist in the same Library folder?

    I have Shader - Let it Snow, Shader Presets, and Shaders. The one for Let it snow is probably a typo, and it should have been Shaders as opposed to Shader, so I could easily combine them.

    Inside DS Content, you can really do as you please with the structure, but I would be interested to know which ones you are wanting to combine?

  • Daniel BarnettDaniel Barnett Posts: 389
    edited December 1969

    JimmyC_2009 said:
    What are the folders called, obviously they cannot all be called 'Shaders' or they could not co-exist in the same Library folder?

    I have Shader - Let it Snow, Shader Presets, and Shaders. The one for Let it snow is probably a typo, and it should have been Shaders as opposed to Shader, so I could easily combine them.

    Inside DS Content, you can really do as you please with the structure, but I would be interested to know which ones you are wanting to combine?

    The folders are:
    Shader
    Shader Presets
    Shaders

    I would think they are only used when you apply them and are not connected to a product and would lose the programs ability to find them if I moved them into one folder!
    Thanks
    dbb

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    If the one called 'Shader' only holds Let it Snow, I would move that into the 'Shaders' folder.

    I would leave the Shaders and Shader Presets as different folders though, as they are really different things, but some of them may not actually be in the correct folders to begin with. It's only one extra folder after all.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited June 2014

    I've always thought Shaders were meant to be fully shaders separate from Daz Default (ie AoA SSS), and the Presets would be for options/settings for those shaders (ie DimensionTheory's SSS Toolbox for AoA's SSS), but it never works out like that.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,765
    edited December 1969

    Recently DAZ has been standardising on Shader presets for everything, even the presets to apply base shaders. Moving the files will break uninstallers, so you could potentially end up with two versions of the presets if there's an update, and will of course break Smart Content and categorisation but it shouldn't stop the files from working.

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    Thanks Richard for explaining this.

  • PendraiaPendraia Posts: 3,598
    edited December 1969

    dbbdaniel said:
    I have three folders for Shaders - can they all be moved into one folder with breaking anything?
    Thanks
    dbb

    Are you shifting folders in windows or in the content library?

    In the library under categories you can put them all in the one folder. That is how mine is set up...

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