Hi there,

I'm pleased to announce that we have decided to make the Vue 4.2 Beta Update publicly available. The update is an incremental update from Vue 4.12.

After several iterations, we have finally decided to use completely separate code to handle imports from Poser 4 and Poser 5 (none of the advanced Poser 5 features - e.g. dynamic hair and cloth - are supported in this update). That way, maximum ascending compatibility with Poser 4 should be ensured.

The update also features a number of fixes and improvements, including better performance of the material editor under OS X.

This update has alreay been in beta for over 2 months and appears to be quite reliable. If you would like to give it a try, you can download the files below. Please note that beta testing is at your own risk.

Vue 4.2 Beta Update for Mac OS X
Vue 4.2 Beta Update for Windows

I hope that you will like this new update.

Best Regards
Steve Bell, e-on software.

Thanks for passing on this information. I hope to give it a try, to see how it plays. Deevee, Joe.

Thanks so much for this information :) Wonderful news! ladynimue

Thank you. I do have a question about this update... I just did a reformat of my computer,and installing my programs back on.Do I installe Vue4 and just this Beta update,or do I still need to put 4.12 on first? SWAMP

I tried the beta and found: 1) appears to use more memory for the same thing (P4 import) 2) did not have the imported parts available in the lower right window. 3) Seems to hang my copy of vue (no cpu/no response)

Attached Link: http://www.the3dscene.com

I tried the Mac version out twice. Both times resulted in what I call an endless loop. I had to force quit Vue both times.

I tried it. Wonderful... :) I did a quickie Don and Judy in P5, out of the P5 runtime, did the import and with only one glitch it went perfectly. For some reason the couple was embedded in the terrain I had plopped down, and couldn't be seperated from it. But deleting the terrain solved that one, and I may have done something in my haste. Then I bopped over to P4 and did an import of Sixus1's battle buggy from the P4 runtime. All I got there was the ordnance load. Haven't checked to see if this is model specific or not, but the import does seem to work for both Poser apps. After a little sleep, I plan on trying a full set of tests to see what is what (and to see just what effects will transfer over from the shader nodes in P5...) But so far, it looks promising!

Thanks,Cheers..I thought so,but just wanted to make sure. SWAMP

Hmmm....I do believe I will wait until the beta bugs are ironed out....

Impressive, 4.20 finally has put an end to all Poser imports, VUE goes through the motions, even asks for texture files it can't see, the progressbar shows progress but in the end nothing is imported. This already happened in 4.12 with very large PZ3's but in 4.20 no PZ3 are imported, P4 PPro or P5 , makes no difference. Since I believe in being very thorough I reinstalled VUE & PPro on a different PC , same results.

Wellll, I DL'ed this as soon as I saw it was availabe BUT after reading of some of the quirks/bugs it looks like I'll join Djeser and Sharen on the side-lines for this update, but a big thanks to all of you who are taking the time to work with this beta ;-)!! ==steve

Interesting - we were originally told that P4 import would require a "workaround", but it sounds as if they are at least trying to support both. Good luck to the beta-testers!

Works fine on this 1GHz Mac G4; no hangs, no loops, everything comes in from both Posers (4.03 ProPack and 5) looking great. Keep up the good work, e-on!

Ive just downloaded the update and Im curious if it will import my Poser 5 files correctly... Ive been waiting since ages for that - Ive got the Poser 5 update here since many month and I had nearly regret it, because I couldnt import Poser 5 figures into Vue... I used Poser 4 more than 5 since I have it - But it seems this could change that... ;-)

~Does a happy dance.~ Happy happy happy. Installed fine, tested with some pz3 files I had, one recently that the dressed model ended up nude in Vue and I was too annoyed to get fixed before. She went in perfectly. Thank you, thank you!!

LO I installed vue 4 again and then mover then i installed the 4.12 update full then the beta but when i try to import pz3 files,it said unable to and it wont bring in the file seeklight please helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

can't wait to re-intall Vue to try this.

I can already import POSER 5 PZ3's into Vue using version 4.12. Will there be ANY reason for me (and those like me) to upgrade to 4.2 ?? Does it help with the timeline issues after importing PZ3's (i.e. massive slowdown making timeline unuseable?). Any plans to fix the broken OpenGL implementation? Thanks, Tim