I was trying to import a simple Poser figure. Have Vue'D 4.22/Mover 5/Poser 5 (with latest update this past week or so) Mac 1.8 Dual G5 OSX 10.3.3 all I get is a blob with no textures or anything.. ok Read through the manual and found nothing on this.. went to E-on's site and searched and got nothing that really covers this. any ideas? PS I did save the figure as a 3DS and imported .. uploading here next the image I made in Vue .. you can see that the girl looks.. well ... blocky?

Maybe it is just me but the blob actually looks like a haircut... did your girl have short hair ? I don't have a Mac, so I think you will have to wait until our Mac expert gives us a vist .... wabe ?

You might try also simply importing the .pz3 file instead of trying to export it to a 3ds format and then importing it into Vue. Hope this helps.

that's what that is.. it works with the 3DS.. what is above is just importing the .pz3 file... all I get is a blob

Have you activated the OpenGL option? Maybe this helps. <:) Phil

OpenGL just makes Vue crash..and what would that do? I believe that it's only a preview function...OpenGL has nothing to do with importing and such?

You're right...I was just guessing. Does this happen with other Poser models, too? Maybe there's something wrong with that certain mesh. Again I'm just guessing, since this never happend to me. Could you provide us with some more info, so someone might be able to reproduce that issue. Which model did you use etc.? Phil

I'm lost.. E-on's lost (got to say they are trying) is anyone here using a G5/OSX 10.3 other than me? I finally get Vue working resonably and Now i can't get mover to run... any more ideas? all i get when I import a poser file is the skull cap.. any figure from any file.. no matter how i set the import up (as far as i can tell) help?(sinking slowly into the giving up quicksand)

Ok, back from a week of holiday. First of all, it works for me - on Pro and 4.22. Especially with pz3-files and even with dynamic hair/clothes. But i am still on OS 10.2.8, maybe that is one difference. But to your problems: #1 it should work with pz3 files. Much easier, much more options (like changing the Poser files later again). BTW, one of the biggest options of Vue Pro that it automatically updates a changed Poser file! #2 do you have had Poser 4 first? And are you sure Vue is pointing to the right Poser copy? It sounds a little like that. That Vue is looking in the wrong Poser structures for geometry and textures. I had that problem when i moved from Poser 4 to Poser 5. Maybe you can give u some more informations about your sytem and installations. Then we can try to find a solution.

nope.. just poser 5.. computer is only 2 months old so 4 never even got installed in anyway system is right out of the box G5 dual 1.8 with a gig of ram all hardware has been checked.. and double checked.. disks been whipped and full reinstall only hardware add -on is the kensington turbo mouse and an M-audio keyboard (which i unplug) and A radeon 7000 PCI video card (which I have pulled a few times and it made no diff) software system is OSX 10.3.4 (apple just updated from 10.3.3 and that made no diff) software is Vue 4.22.02 with mover 5, poser 5.X (have tried it with both the org. install and C-lab's new update) I try and open any pz3 file and all i get is the skull cap.. also have tried the gorilla and a few other items that were included with Mover and those come up as nothing.. and i mean nothing.. goes through all the steps.. and says.. "importing" .. wait a sec.. everything looks good.. except nothing gets imported.. :( OK let me ask one other question.. does Vue/Mover ask for poser EVERYTIME? That's kinda annoying.. it should know after the first import that you have a copy of poser, right? that's every thing i believe... :) thanks by the way :) Thomas

In fact, it should not ask every time. That means, that Vue does not recognise Poser properly. Somewhere deep back in my brain i think i have heard that before. But can't remember what it was. Are both applications installed on the same disk? And have you tried different models? I sometimes had problems with specific ones and none with others. I hope in parallel to this here you have contacted E-on support, they should be able to help as well. To me this sounds more like a system 10.3.4 problem than anything else - but i can be wrong. We have a new system at work and a lot of problems with 10.3.x. Not with Vue because i avoid installing it there (not my system there) but with a lot of other software packages. First of all the problem that Vue does not recognise Poser 5 must be clarified. Then the rest will be logical i guess.

Ya that's what i am thinking also.. not seeing Poser... Yes both are on same drive... yes been talking to e-on.. (very nice.. trying hard.. not getting anywhere, very slow, get almost instant responce here, love you guys :) and I find that the more minds working on a prob the more likly it will be figured out fast) yes tried almost all the models.. kids.. gorilla (from mover disk) etc.. hi and low res, with and without hair... with and without dynamic stuff. did the same thing with 10.3.2/.3/.4 so it's not the system right this second I am totally whipping the drive (with single over write of 1's and 0's err and I forgot to get my e-mail with mover # on it.. bummer) I am sitting at my old 733 mac that i gave to my mother (they paid for half the G5 for my b-day and got this computer also..got to love parents : ) ) anyway. back to the point... installed on here and everything seems to be fine.. imported nicely on this machine which is running everything the same as the G5 cept the mouse.. (wondering if all in all if that's it?..not likly.. but who knows) Only got the nude model.. (no dynamic hair or clothes) but I don't have mover installed here.. wondering if it's a g5 thing? dual processor thing? or Kensington thing?.. or maybe it's a drive thing?.. I don't know... feeling lost. One thing I noticed on here is when asking for Poser it actually came up with a window where I had to find poser.. where on the G5 it never did.. just said it needed a valid poser.. and went straight to importing the file.. never had to actually go select poser it's self ( I always though it just knew where it stashed the serial # and went and got it) sorta found the prob i think.. just how to fix? well I have to leave tonight for Long Island to work this week so you wont be hearing from me until friday at the earlest.. (unless it's going to rain all week) thanks for all your help so far :)

Ok, what you can do is renaming the Poser 5 folder on your G5. Then Vue has to ask again because it can't find Poser again. It worked for me once to be sure again to where Vue is pointing. AND, you always can rename Poser back to the old name if it will work. BTW, you should - otherwise Poser could have texture troubles after. Maybe try that out and let us know. And have a good week in Long Island.

Weee looks like i'm getting close to Vue working... after a total wipe and re-install (the key seems to be wipe/write over) importing seems to work.. (though Vue is crashing like crazy now.. but I had things turned off that I don't right now) anyway.. work in progress included.. just got to figure out how to keep her butt inside the dress in poser :)

Good to hear that. You probably have to switch off OpenGL - normally the biggest reason for Vue problems. Butt inside the dress? You must conform the dress to the figure via "conform to..." under "figure". Sometimes that helps. Of course only when it is not dynamic clothes. Then it is much more difficult. And lesson 2 then.

Open Gl is off yup did the conform to. time to go over to the poser forum and harrass them now :) thanks

I too have had my share of crashes with Vue under OSX 10.3, with both a G4 and now more so with My Newer G5. (1.8DP, 1GB RAM) I tend to believe that it is the app itself and not a system related problem, that causes so many crashes. I don't have these kinds of issues with any other App I use. But if you look at Vue4 on Mac from initial release to today, they have gone a long way on stability from the first Mac version, which on my systems was almost unusable. This tells me that we can expect that Vue5 will but much more stable on Mac... :-) Paul

I think it is always a mixture of problems - never just one. We have one G4 with Mac OS 10.3.4 running in the office. But because of so many problems with several applications we decided to give this one to the practicant. So many applications that do not run properly there. Starting that we had to buy a new graphic card because 10.3 does not support the one that was built in (10.2 did), Toast has problems, Quark XPress, PowerPoint, Suitcase (which probably is the reason for a lot of the other problems) to name only a few. Mostly annoying is, that Wacom is still not able to produce a proper driver for OS 10. I struggle with the different driver versions since the first moment and disconnect the tablet now when i want to work with 3D applications. It makes Vue crashing, Poser impossible to work with and the same with Cinema. I found out that most of the problems i have are lying there and nowhere else. The one and only program i know that does not have problems with it is Photoshop - and i cannot work in Photoshop only, just because Wacom wants me to. You see, always a bundle of difficulties that makes a whole picture. But i agree to the above said, Vue d'Esprit is relatively new at this platform. A version 1 indeed. As all applications it has to grow with several releases. In giving profond and well analysed bug reports we can do a lot to make this process faster.

As for her butt, just make the figure's hip (and maybe buttocks) invisible in the properties thing in Poser.