I installed everything the installer would install, about 450MB.

33m_SmallHouse.vob loads with tuiles.jpg missing and it is nowhere in the vue folder when doing a file search nor it is on either one of the Vue cds. It is looking for it in the vue4outside folder, which doesn't look right because the outside folder is inside the objects folder. Even so, the jpg file is not there either.

02_Barrel 2 loads missing the barrel.jpg file, there is one on the cd in the scenessamples 1 folder, the right one I'm not sure.

07_cask loads missing the bois.jpg file but there is one on the cd in the scenessamples 1 folder but again, I'm not sure if that is the right one.

and so on.

Is there a definitive list of textures missing or misplaced with the full install and where to find them so I don't have to search for textures everytime I load an object? I can do the search one by one and those I can find I can move them where the vob file because it seems to find them there despite the wrong path.

I don't have problems importing pz3 files with textures at least, even Poser 5 files have been loading ok for me most of the time.

I installed my Vue objects as a collection, during a seperate process from my original install. The object's install was initiated when I selected the object from the 'load object' dialog. I then told Vue to install the entire collection, and the textures came in just fine.

I don't know how you installed your Vue objects, but you may have to try a different installation method.

Charles

I just told it to install everything when I installed the application. Maybe there's a glitch in the installer. Thanks for the feedback.

There are no missing textures. If Vue asks you for a "missing" texture, it should be on the extra CD and you forgot to load the content in your Vue folder. Guitta

I reread the installation instructions and didn't see anything mentioned about needing to load the content from the extra cd if you did a full install. I did find reference to virtual collections but I don't see that icon on anything that has texture files Vue can't find.

Looking at the installed object folder on my hard drive having only 588 files and 9 folders and the object folder on the cd having 637 files in 15 folders, there is about .5MB difference in the Outside folder size and the missing SWMA folder account for the difference between the installed folders and the cd. I guess not everything does get installed even if you check everything during the custom install. I copied the whole objects folder over from the CD to the objects folder in my Vue folder. (I moved the original installed objects folder to a subfolder elsewhere on the drive before doing this in case it messed stuff up)

Even with copying the object folder from the cd to the hard drive, 33m_SmallHouse.vob loads with tuiles.jpg missing and Vue opens the object folder on my hard drive to search for it, but it is not there.

Please tell me what folder on which cd you find tuiles.jpg? It does not exist on my cds when searched.

Thank you for your assistance!

right diana, you only need to load the content of CD 2, if you want to use the samples. When you install Vue, the file "tuiles.jpg" and all the other material of the house goes in "objects/outside" folder. At least I think so, because I have organized some files differently... Maybe you have displaced or deleted the file. Is this one the only one missing from your house? If it is really missing, I will help you out. I will write you an IM because I need to controle your ownership of Vue:-). Guitta

Here's a trick a I just tried. With Vue open and running in the background. I went into my ... e-on softwareVue d'Esprit 4ObjectsOutside folder with Windows Explorer and deleted the house (.vob), and I then went back to Vue, opened the 'load object' dialog from the Objects menu. I selected the house, and Vue brought up this 'collection' dialog. Set the dialog as I have it, and it shoud bring the house in with the texture.

BTW, I search my applications CD for textures, and I couldn't find them either.

Charles

Oh yes, Charles. As this only happend to me in the beginnings of Vue, I did not remember:-). That's the best way. Guitta

Well, I did what Charles did and it quit asking for the texture after copying all the files for the collection to the hard drive but tuiles.jpg still does not exist on my hard drive and the house has no shingles on the roof. Charles, does your house have shingles on the roof like those you can see on the right of Guitta's image?

Shoot down Vue before you trie to load the house

Ok, I shut Vue down and it now asks me again for that tuiles.jpg file when I try to load the house. Hmmm...

I too have had the same area.. I took a shingles jpg that I found elsewhere. Copied it to vue/outside and renamed it to the tuiles.jpg. I got tired of the error message all the time and it worked.

Here's all the picture files in my outside folder on my hard drive. There seems to be a lot of texture files missing because I'd figure all the picture textures the vob files in this folder would be in this folder with them since Vue always looks for them there. The hard drive has everything that's on the cd.

Perhaps e-on could place a zip file online for registered users to download that has the missing texture files in the directory structure that matches the installed Vue so we can get all the textures for every vob file installed in the proper folders easily? Has anyone suggested this or maybe this has been done for others already?

My house has shingles. I'm out of solutions here. :

My house has shingles too. I told you I cansend it to you. Jusrt answer my IM:-). I've never heard from some one else of missing files. Guitta

Although the Vue4 cd installed version 4.12-02 Build 261025, which matches the current version of the latest update at eon's web site, the missing files are in that downloadable update too so I had to install it as well. The way I tracked that down was reading through eon's previous support messages I found those same files were missing way back. The 4.03 update fixed it and I found someone with 4.06 complaining about the vessel's missing files on eon's site and they were told to patch back to 4.03 to get the files and then update to 4.06 again. I guess they are selling CDs with the latest version program yet still with missing files. Although the paths to the files are still wrong, Vue looks for the Outside folder on the same level as the Objects folder rather than inside the Objects folder, I now have tuiles.jpg on my system. Yea! Thanks to all that went to such efforts to assist me!