Quote - Merging is broken with 4.5 reality 4.5 Lets say I merge a character that I saved with reality settings with a new scene most of that characters reality settings are wiped out..

Did you convert all the Studio files to the new .duf format? If no then you should.

Hope this helps 

Paolo

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