Hi

I've got a problem with a character that invariably crashes Softimage when you try to import it as a model, or merge it into an existing scene. The only way round this is to merge/import whatever else is needed for the shot into the character's base scene. (I've tried to track down the cause of the crashes without success - something to do with one of the many ICE trees on the thing, I guess).

The problem is that whatever I save the new scene as, anything that requires a file path string (shadow maps, simulation caches, rendered frames, etc.) has the same (wrong) name inserted where I've used [Scene] in the string.

I seem to remember that the same thing happens if you rename a scene outside of XSI; does anyone know a fix ?

iirc, look into using the FileName or UserSceneName parameters of the Scene object

I gave it a go Steve, but both these were just ignored, i.e. files were saved to the next folder up.

For the case where you rename the scene using the file system...

Many thanks, that seems to have sorted it.