nimesh opened this issue on May 02, 2003 ยท 12 posts
pdxjims posted Fri, 02 May 2003 at 4:08 PM
Vue won't work with P5, unless you have P4 installed. Vue looks for a P4 installation to see if it's allowed to import a .pz3 file. If you only have P5 installed, it won't allow you to import. Vue also doesn't support P5 strand hair. Some bumpmaps will not be imported. P5 material room textures (not the usual .jpg files) don't imports. However, that said, Vue is a much better renderer than P4 or P5. Materials in Vue are better and more versitle than P5 materials, and a big step up from P4. Lights are tremednously better, so is atmosphere. I often build my base scene in Poser, then import it into Vue for special materials, lighting, and the better rendering engine. Vue is very similar to Bryce in that respect. There's a bit of debate as to which one is the better program between the two. I prefer Vue because I don't have to go through an intermediate step to import Poser figures with normal textures. Sharen is dead right about looking at the Vue gallery. There's some beautiful stuff there.