Scenes and presets

Scenes

A scene is what the studio shows: one or more bodies, a clip, a room, maybe a wall, bars, an object, sounds and reactions to your touch. Click SCENE in the scene bar (or press Ctrl O) for every scene, as a grid of pictures in three sections:

Bodies: the Genesis 9 scenes. Studio is the main one. Others put two bodies together (Couple), a man (Male), bars, a spoken line (Hello, Lipsync), or a body that reacts when you touch it (Touch).
Walls: a region of the body as a wall of soft copies (Breast wall, Vulva wall), with their own controls under the scene's name: layout, tint and more.
Demos: test bodies that are not Genesis 9: flesh letters, a ball on a cone, procedural breasts.

Rest the pointer on a scene to read what it is. Type in the filter to find one by its name, its words or its tags (wall, couple, interactive...). Picking a scene brings back how you left it.

A scene may use Daz products beyond Starter Essentials. When your library lacks one:

an optional one: the scene runs without that piece. The line Missing for this scene under the scene bar lists it, with what it adds and a get it link.
a mandatory one: the scene does not open, and says which product it needs. The scene list marks it (needs <name>).

Your own scenes

Each .ts file of your scenes folder is a scene of the list, after ours (see the Scenes tab of the config). A file named like one of ours shows as ~<name>, marked (yours), and never replaces ours. A scene file that fails to load shows its error over the scene list, with the file and the line. See Writing scenes for how to write one.

Presets

A preset is a name and a whole setup of a scene, as you made it: the character and its shape, what the body wears, the room and its light, the turn, the look, the eyes, the clip, its range and its speed, the camera, the object. It does not keep the time in the clip (a preset starts its clip from the beginning), nor what your tools hold.

The preset list is in the scene bar, beside the scene. Click it for your presets in groups, each with its picture and tags that say what sets it apart (its clip, its room, its character, its hair). default is first: every part at its default.

Action	Key	What it does
Save	`Ctrl` `S`	Saves the scene over the preset you picked, at once, with a new picture. With no preset picked (`default` or `custom`), it asks for a name. A note offers Undo for 5 seconds.
Save as	`Ctrl` `Shift` `S`	Saves under a new name. It suggests the next free one (`walk-2` after `walk-1`). A name that exists asks once more: Replace?
Discard		Drops your changes and goes back to the preset as saved. Undo is offered after.
Rename	`F2`	Renames the picked preset, its picture with it.
Delete		The trash: a first click arms it (red), a second deletes. Undo is offered after.

A * after the preset's name means the scene differs from the saved preset; moving the camera counts. Your presets and their pictures live in your profile's presets folder (see Profiles).