Zhann opened this issue on Mar 04, 2003 ยท 35 posts
Phantast posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 5:01 AM
I posted the text below to the Vue thread; I repost here in case anyone is interested. >> I can't look at four panes at once, so for me, flipping quickly through the panes with `1234 (really SENSIBLE choices of hot keys for once; compare the stupid ones in Poser) actually works better. What I find difficult with Vue is positioning objects correctly for interiors (which is what I do mostly). With Bryce it is very easy to build a wall and turn it exactly 90 degrees. It is harder in Vue (or I didn't discover the easy way). As for Poser figures, once you figure out the optimum strategy, you find that the Bryce route is actually better. The trick is to stop thinking about trying to import textures from Poser. The Poser4 texture engine is pathetic; ignore it. Import your untextured figure into Bryce and then use the much better Bryce material editor. With the Grouper utility, you can import a mesh that has only so many parts as will have different materials (typically about 6). OK, so Vue can import from a .pz3 file, but just try and retexture the figure in Vue using the Vue material editor - just try it! So you're stuck with whatever you get out of Poser. So I uninstalled Vue and went back to Bryce. I might go back to Vue someday for doing pure landscapes (which I do think it's better at), but for my current work Bryce is better.