Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser & Bryce

Attendent opened this issue on Jun 20, 2003 ยท 13 posts


jas1746 posted Fri, 20 June 2003 at 4:26 PM

Hi Mike, I have Poser 4 & 5, Bryce 2 Through 5, Mojoworld 1 & 2, and Vue D'esprit 3 & 4. I rarely if ever touch Bryce for anything anymore due to several reasons, but one of them was because of the difficulty in importing Poser models. Now don't get me wrong, I still have Bryce installed on my PC and still play with it, and I am still amazed at what people out there are still doing with the program. (A pox on Corel for not advancing the developement of what was a fine program.) I don't want to start a flame war over Bryce vs. Vue, it is a matter of choice. I tend to like Vue better, there are others who are Brycers, and more power to them! Render on people! I fell in love with Vue D'esprit, especially version 4 which allows direct import of Poser files. They come through flawless almost everytime. Every once in a while I will find some little problem, but not often. I have attached a render from Vue with a imported file of Michael 2 suited up in RunTime DNA's Elric gear. Both he, the pillars and the dragon above are straight imports from Poser with no touch up, and you can see he came through with all his colors intact. Bear in mind that Vue 4 right now only works with Poser 4 and does not support Poser 5 completely. I use Poser 5 to make files to import into Vue 4, but I am using the folders still in the Poser 4, as this is where Vue looks for the geometry files and textures, and it also needs the Poser.exe in the Poser 4 folder to work correctly. So if you really are looking to Poser for creating figures to export to other apps and are on a retricted budget, then you might take a look at Vue 4. (Cinema 4D and 3D Studio Max someday!) I have just now started to try and use Poser 5 for making complete scenes instead of exporting them to another app. I am still fighting with those damn lights. Lighting is the most important and tricky part of any 3D program. If I remember correctly, Bryce wants all the textures for your Poser figure to be in the same folder as the obj file for the figure. I remember copying all the neccesary files to a common folder. Also, you need to select the one of the eyeball geometries on the each of the figure's eyes and make it a glass like texture or the figure will have those damn completely white eyes. JAS