How do you actually save default Project Settings?

stephklein · Post by **stephklein** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:54 pm

In the project settings window, my Save as Defaults button doesnt work. I adjust my settings (Dimensions, frame rate), and hit save as defaults, but hitting restore defaults reverts the settings back to 320x240.

Is there something i'm missing? How do i actually save settings?

elbramtsol · Post by **elbramtsol** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:20 am

You have to adjust your settings, hit save as defaults and then press ok, if you press restore defaults moho will reverts the original settings.

stephklein · Post by **stephklein** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:38 am

The restore defaults button restores the original software defaults, and not the saved defaults? Well that's just silly. That basically means that the Save as Defaults button is absolutely useless.

T · Post by T » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:34 am

Not useless, just not what you expect...

Save as default means that when you start a new animation project, it starts with the settings you want normally (whatever you saved).

I think it's a great feature, because I got tired of changing the settings every time I created a new scene for an animation.

myles · Post by **myles** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:38 am

No, it means that any new project you create will automatically use the settings you specified when you hit the Save As Defaults button, instead of the starting default of 320x240 24fps.

So, if (for example) you create lots of banner advertising at 600x40 12fps, you type in those settings in the project settings, hit Save As Defaults, and from then on every new project automatically starts at these settings (until you specify a new default).

Maybe the buttons would make more sense to you if you thought of them as "Set new custom starting default settings" and "Reset to Moho default settings" ?

Regards, Myles.

Edit: oops, beaten by T. I'll leave it anyway for the example.

T · Post by T » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:41 am

Lol, you got the next one.

stephklein · Post by **stephklein** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:10 am

Yeah I understand what they do, I just think it's a little silly. I guess it really is just a problem of the buttons being mis-labeled.

I DO think it needs a third button, to actually restore the saved defaults.. Not every single one of my projects is going to have the same specs. Sometimes i'm going to want to change one or two things, and then later on i might want to go back to the original (saved) specs.

Now obviously I could just re-type them. It is by no means difficult. But that's sorta the point of buttons like this.. to save you a few seconds. I guess the best way to go would be to have the ability to save "profiles" or "templates".

Ant_Gri3d · Post by **Ant_Gri3d** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:30 pm

You can do it already. Make several files-templates with parameters, what you often use, and open-resave. And what mean few seconds in comparision with hard and time-exspensive animation work.