I am working with the Lisa figure created by Paul Haefli and have created a sceene which I have imported into vue. When I render the figure doesn't look much like the figure when I render in Poser ie skin texture is nowhere near as refined or natural. Is this because the lighting in the vue sceene is flooding the lighting created in the original poser sceene ( so I need to continue to play around with lighting in vue)or am I missing something more fundamental? Paul

Paul, Poser light is not imported into Vue. You must do the lighti,g entirely in Vue. And don't forget what was said already in an earlier thread about the plastic look and so... Guitta

Paul, regarding the "plastic look" there is a very easy solution: Just open the texture editor, choose the appropriate texture and decrease specularity. Regarding the lightning IMHO it's not too bad that Vue doesn't import the lights. Wiht Vue you can get way much better/natural lightning results and it's much easier if you are used to it, since the lights can be positioned and edited very easily. You can do things that weren't possible in Poser with a lot of fiddling with the lights. Hope this helps, Phil

I agree with the above. Channeler, the lighting setup in Poser 4 and earlier versions is made for "dummies." As in the book titles - just for beginners that could not be expected to know or learn anything at all about lighting. The Poser lighting is a standard "3-point lighting rig" used in the movie industry and in 3D modelling. If you look, you will see the three points, and also, you'll notice that the default lighting is carefully set to maximize skin color tones. You can do so much more, and make even more dramatic pictures in Vue by controlling your own lighting set up. I believe there is a simple tutorial available on this site, and perhaps an advanced one as well. If not, send me an e-mail, and I'll send you a Vue scene with a standard 3-point lighting rig already made. (Or I'll post one as a free object, this weekend.) You just have to follow the tutorial given to get rid of the plastic look, and then learn a teeny, tiny bit about lighting.

Yes, one of the many reasons people choose to render their Poser stuff in other 3D apps is better control of the lighting. That said, however, there are some fantastic light sets available for Poser that I love. Poser's been out for a long time and some very talented people have learned to make the best use of Poser lighting, such as it is. and there are times I will render in Poser for a certain look. For me though I find scene setup in Poser such a chore and so limited that that's reason enough to render elsewhere. :)

Many thanks for your advice and comments everyone. I am getting to grips with experimenting with lighting. Paul