Parden this for those who have seen it many times.. I am trying to learn to import poser figures into Vue to add them to a scene. I have seen notes they should be imported as .obj but also as .pz3, Is there a perffered method and a site witha tutorial if anyone knows of one? Thanks D-m

Yes, absolutely! If you want all textures, bums and transparencies on the right place, you must import as a pz3. And make sure you have updated Vue to the latest version. :-)Guitta

Ok, thanks!! One other question I imported a Pz3 and it seemed fine, what about hair?? I didnt seem to come over at all (using sudio maya pigtails)

(It didnt seem to come over) I should say...

I don't know what kind of hair this Mays Studio Pigtails is. Sorry. But otherwise Vue 4.2 imports Poser 4 hair fine, havn't tried yet with Poser 5 hair.

Got it! Thank you all very much for the help, Vue is truely the best i have ever seen..I actually think I like it more than poser!

Poser 5's Dynamic Hair doesn't import into Vue yet. If you want hair you can still use Poser 4 hair on figures in Poser 5 and it will work fine.

On the Studio Maya hair.... That's one of the Japanese sites that produces some of the best Poser stuff that few people learn of. As far as it being in Vue... Expand your imported file so that it shows all of the items in it, and see if the hair is listed. If so, then the problem is that the -textures and transmaps- didn't come over, and that is almost certainly a pathing problem. Poser uses recursive searching when there isn't an item located. Vue can't use that; it depends on their being accurate pathnames for things like textures. A lot of the Japanese content creators have their content in file structures 'external' to what Poser considers 'proper' (for example, the zip of the hair probably had a path structure like 'StudioMayaRuntimeHair, geometry, character, texture, etc.'. I've even seen them as 'Content Creator NameMetacreationsPoserruntime etc. The fix is simple. Either get Hogwarden's Correct Reference and run it on your Poser runtime to find and fix all those dubious pathnames, or check just where the files are, and drag them into the proper place, checking that the names are correct, even unto capitalization. Then reload the hair prop to correct the pathnames and reimport the pz3.

And the best way to avoid hair pulling in the future is to create a 'temp' folder on the drive with your Poser install, unzip any zip file that has a pathname starting other than 'Runtime' into it, and dragging the expanded folders where they belong in the Poser directories.