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Every generation gets a file name. You can leave it to ZeroGen, type your own, or use a naming preset your project shares.

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How ZeroGen names files

With nothing in Name, ZeroGen names the file after your prompt: lowercase, with spaces and symbols turned into hyphens, @ tags left out, and cut to 64 characters. It adds the output number and a short ID. For example, the prompt “Put the man in @image1 by the side of the road in @image2 looking to hitch a ride” gave put-the-man-in-by-the-side-of-the-road-in-looking-to-hitch-a-rid-01-d0ed1aa8. To choose the name yourself, type up to 80 characters in Name. Name preview shows the result. When one generation makes several files, they’re numbered _01, _02 and so on.

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Use a preset

Choose the menu beside Name and pick a preset. Fill in its fields, and Name preview shows the name every output will get.
The Scene and shot preset selected, with Scene, Shot, Author, Date and Version fields and a name preview of Scene_0001_JS_2026-10-28_v5.
Presets belong to the project, so everyone in it names files the same way.

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Create a preset

Owners and Admins can create, rename and delete presets. Choose the menu beside Name, then New preset, to open the Name builder.
The Name builder, with a preset name, the fields Scene, Shot, Author, Date and Version, settings for the selected field, a delimiter, and example asset names.
  1. Name the preset.
  2. Add fields and drag them into order. Each field is one of these types:
    • Text: a word you type, with an optional prefix and default value.
    • Counter: a number that can go up automatically within the folder you’re saving to.
    • Author: who made the file.
    • Date: the day it was made.
    • Parent Folder: the folder it’s saved in.
  3. Choose a Delimiter to join the fields: a hyphen, an underscore, a period, a space, none or your own.
  4. Check Example asset names, then choose Save preset.
Deleting a preset doesn’t rename files that already used it.