Ok, when I import a poser character into Vue, it looks very dull & fake. How can I prevent it from happening? Or perhaps what can I do to restore the quality of import? Umm, I'm not sure if I made myself clear. Please, some advise would be greatful.

Have you checked the FAQ section? I think there are a lot of informations. Could you show us an example? It is a little difficult to understand without seeing. Last questions: PC or Mac? Which version of Vue and Poser?

Yes nish, your exact Vue version is important to know as well as your Poser version. But also we need to know in whate format you import to Vue. Pz3, OBJ? :-)Guitta

Ok, I got both softwares at the same time. So, bare in mind that I'm novice with both of them. :) ... I have Poser 5 and Vue 4 (to be precise, Vue 4.06-02, don't know if it makes any difference though). Using in PC with Windows XP. I can't import Pz5, so tried both OBJ and 3DS. Unfortunately I don't know how to add pictures in this message box. :( so, can't actualy post an example. In the mean time, I'll go ahead and look into the FAQ section; thanks.

BINGO!! Update your Vue version to 4.12 anyhow to get correct support here. Poser 5 is a problem with Vue 4 if you don't have Poser 4, but some users can do it. You may do a search for "Poser 5" here in the forum. This was already treated very often. To add a picture to forum posts, Browse the ATTACH FILE when writing an answer and find the image to upload on your HD. :-)Guitta

The reason behind the dull look comes from the default settings in Vue (Bryce has the same problem). - Check the atmosphere settings. Especially useful to get rid of the dullness are 'exposure' and 'ambiant light'. If you reduce both, your image will look darker but the colors will be more realistic. - Next you will have to compensate that darkness by adding more lights to your scene. Try placing some point lights, with low intensity (50) and shadow/flare turned off. Two or three of these lights will enhance your scene. I will try to find some URLs I had to illustrate this when I get a chance.

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/%7Evue/archtips.html

awesome! thank a million for your tips.

Am I glad I read to the end of this thread! Thanks for the link, Agiel - I had no idea such an archive existed. Searching around for where the link from the main Forum was (in the FAQ section) has also turned up a couple of other things I'd missed previously.

When I import poser people, I up the ambiance and diffusion a bit on the skin textures and hair, depending on the lighting of the scene. If I want the hair on my person to be blond, I go even higher with ambiance and diffusion, and sometimes add a very slight glow effect. You can also try color blends in the texture editor. That's a good thing to know if skin or fabric doesn't look well with the rest of the scene. Of course, I've been using poser 4 but this may still hold with poser 5 imports. Not sure tho. But it works for figures that were created in Poser 5 and are not supposed to be used in Poser 4. Oh and you'll have to fiddle around with the bump maps too. A bump gain can be very slight, like 0.050 and have a nice effect, depending on the figure, whereas the default gain of 1 will make it look horrible. Good luck! :-) Linda

Forgot to say that the one thing in Vue that I find most handy is the quadratic light. If your figure is too dark, stick one of those on it and it'll brighten it up. If you set the power and falloff correctly, it won't be noticed as it won't lighten other elements around it. Very cool feature.

I'm working on ambiance and diffusion on skin in Poser right ... before the export? Just wanted to see if I'm clear on this. Thanks.

nish... you will have more control if you tweak the materials and textures after importing into Vue. I don't think those parameters are exported from poser.

Attached Link: http://www.3drender.com/light/3point.html

Attached Link: http://www.warpedspace.org/lightingT/part1.htm

oh, excellent ... these are enough and detailed information; second one is just too good! Thanks agiel, many thanks.

No, when I talk about working with diffusion and ambiance, that's all done in Vue.

Yeah, I understand now what you were talking about, with lots of help from aigel. ... no wonder, my family members call me idiot! :) Is it better to export poser characters to Vue in single frame or multiple frame? I tried both! So far, I haven't found any use of multiple frame export.

I haven't either. :-)