I'm attempting to move a poser scene into a vue scene. I've been having the missing texture issue for a while now, and it seems that the many feel if I copy my textures over to the bitmap folder inside my vue folder, my texture problems will go away. True? Not true? Smoking pot? Assuming its true, how can I find all the textures used in a poser scene?

First you should have no problem transfering your pz3, just make sure Poser is not running while you import the scene. Sharen

Sharen is right. And make sure you're not using a Mac (LOL). Guitta

Well, then I must be screwed cause I am using a mac and my poser scenes all move into the Vue with no textures.

I am using a Mac and i normally don't have any problems bringing Poser scenes to Vue. What we found out was, that you should not leave textures in subfolders in your Poser texture folder - or even somewhere else. No no. Vue is only looking into the bitmaps folder in Vue or the textures folder of Poser. Nowhere else. And again, normally even not into subfolders inside these folders mentioned above. The "simplest" way to find out which textures are used is to load the Poser file into Vue and then check the materials. There it is written (should be) wich textures Vue is missing. We all mentioned this to e--on for a long time now - hopefully it will be fixed soon. The expert for Poser and Vue is TheWingedOne i think. Maybe you send him a IM! To Guitta. If you are making jokes about Macs, i start talking about Vue and OpenGL drivers on Windows machines :-))) lol!!!

No Walther, I don't make jokes about Macs, but as I have a PC, I'm not able to answer Mac questions correctly. As I know you are here too, I always hope you read the Mac specific messages and can help out:-) Guitta

Runwolf, please check my answer on this issue. This might help you to get the texture working. My image "Setting the Sky on Fire" is pure Vue. No postwork besides adding the logo. Just a hint for you to see what it could/should look like, when the texture thing works. ;) Happy rendering, Phil

So...if I get this right, I have to empty all of my sub folders into the main texture folders? I have all of my textures in sub folders cuz I cant tell the diff between a p4 texture and a vicki texture, and when I get into hair I am really lost because the textures for hair are never named right. A lot of my props textures have no indication which prop they go with. I can see having all textures in one folder would be a mess. But that explains why I have never been able to go poser to vue for rendering.

You can do that. But, what i am doing is, to copy the textures from my Poser texture folder into the folder bitmaps in Vue. So i keep my Poser textures structure and am able to use it in Vue. A little stupid but...

I made a second "textures"f older within the "Runtime" folder . In this folder I copy all the needed textures and delete them after the project is finished. Depends on the size of your hd. I know this not very intelligent, too, but... ;o) That's my solution to get over this little...eeerrrrm, bug. Cheers, Phil

ok....it makes a little more sense now. I guess the idea about putting the textures in the vue bitmaps folder would be a good idea. thanks for your help