[Scene] token gives wrong name

[andystopford]

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 ?

[xsisupport]

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

[andystopford]

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

[xsisupport]

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

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# In the file system, I renamed "My_Scene" to "PSS_Scene"
# So, open PSS_Scene and run this:
scn = Application.ActiveProject.ActiveScene
scn.Parameters("Name").Value = "PSS_Scene"

[andystopford]

Many thanks, that seems to have sorted it.