Does anyone here have experience with exporting LWO files from VuePro to Lightwave?

I am a Vue 4.2 user. Currently, I am considering upgrading from Vue 4.2 to VuePro.......specifically, due to VuePro's LWO export capabilities.

This might be the easiest method of importing Poser 5 files into Lightwave.

Poser 5 ---> VuePro ---> Lightwave

This flow might save a lot of time texturing in Lightwave.

I am looking at getting into Lightwave: VuePro might be an ideal "bridge" with Poser. I know that some P5 to LW plug-ins exist. I wonder how these LW plug-ins compare vs. LWO file export from VuePro?

Anyone have any thoughts on this subject?

Sorry but it is not possible to export Poser file from VUE Pro. If you import others formats ,it seems ok but, for poser files,you get a message saying that yours objets are locked.

Do you mean that you cannot import Poser files into VuePro, save the file as a .vue file, and then export to Lightwave format (LWO)? And is it Lightwave that tells you that your objects are locked, or is it VuePro that tells you this?

Inside Vue Professional you continue to create your scene (the environment). Nowyou can export from Vue the entire scene, except the Poser pz3 figure. Then, inside LW just place your Poser figure, exported directly from Poser to LW where you want to have it.

As long as you stay inside Vue Professional and need to do changes on the pose of your Poser figure, you just do it inside Poser. Vue will then recognice automatically these changes and ask you if you want to apply them.

Of course, Vue Professional will not be able to export a single Poser figure. That's why all copyright objects or figures are looked. This is a MUST. CuriousLabs would not appreciate such a behaving of Vue Professional.

You also can create your own object inside Vue Pro and lock it, so that others, to who you may give the object for free, may use it inside Vue Pro but cannot export it from there into another software, except, if they export it as an entire scene.

Now, there is another way: If you have a final pose for your figure, export it from Poser as an OBJ file and import it into Vue Pro. Continue to create your scene. In this case only, your figure will export with the scene, see image above.

Guitta

Guitta

Thank you for your informative reply, Guitta. I suspected that the "locked" objects had something to do with copyright issues.

So -- this creates another question -- if you export a figure from Poser as an .obj file, and then import the .obj into VuePro, does the .obj file carry all of the Poser textures with it? Or must you re-texture the figure in VuePro?

It looks like I will need to have the Lightwave P5 plug-ins.....to make the software do what I want it to do.

As far as I can see, there may be a "better" solution:
If exporting as an OBJ for import into Vue, you may group all the textures into a folder called "Poser", created inside the Vue Pro folder, as it seems that Vue Pro is searching for the textures there. See above image.

Guitta

Forgot : When you have then located the first textureof your figure, Vue Pro will automatically ask you to locate all the others in this folder too. Clicking "all" will then be very fast.

And another thing: I don't have Lightwave and cannot try better:-)

Guitta -- Thank you very much for all of your effort. I greatly appreciate the help. This gives me some things to think about prior to making a decision on the VuePro software.