Greetings all! I was under the impression one could import a series of Poser frames into Vue. I have set up an animation in Poser consisting of roughly 400 frames but when I try to import into Vue I get only the first frame. I shouldn't need Mover for this. Do I? Am I mistaken completely about importing multiple frames into Vue? thanks in advance kmw

Yes you need mover in order to import full Poser animations.

Okay. But how does that work? I tell Vue to display the timeline, Mover's activated but it starts asking me for a lot of information. Do I just flip through its defaults until I'm out of it and then import the Poser scene? Please, I don't want to waste too much of your time. Tell me where to look and I'll do the research. kmw

If you have Mover 4 (or 5) - what is necessary - you simply import your pz3-file and Vue will ask wether it should import the whole animation or only one frame out of it. Thats all!

Wabe is correct in how you load the poser animation into Vue. The Mover Wizard that pops up when you load up the timeline should not be needed for your poser animation at all, it's simply a startup template for easily animating other objects in Vue, but since it will be getting the animation info from Poser it's best to cancel out of the wizard all together.

I think mover4 is a rip off. It doesn't work well at all. Making animation in Vue with mover and poser causes many crashes. Vue is better as an image maker and not as a helping program for poser animations. Mover should be part of Vue for free because it has such a long history of not working well.

bonnyclump, I do believe Vue comes with a version of Mover, which I've never used but I'm curious to experiment with right now. Thanx for your input tho. What I am curious about is will the version that comes with Vue do what I'm asking about here? Or do I need to purchase an upgraded version, like the one offered on the vendor's site? Because my version is not asking me about importing the whole animation. It's just importing the single scene. Or maybe I'm just doing something wrong (my guess!!! :) ) thanx for the help all kmw

kmw; 'Mover' is the actual, basic animation system built into the Vue application. Mover 5 (as it is called now) is an add-on that extends the functionality of Vue to allow import of full Poser animations (and with Mover 5, that includes the dynamic cloth and hair, if you have Poser 5). The Mover add-on also enables the RenderCow system, which allows you to set up a 5 node renderfarm. It is possible to do animation without Mover 5; it would be quite slow, and involve importing each frame, rendering a still, and composting them into an animation in something like Quicktime (for the web) or Premiere (for those who have access). Mover 5 does add some functions, and extra automation to the existing basic functions. Poser animations can crash Vue easily, this much is true, but in most cases I've encountered, it tends to be a matter of resources....or running out of them. The high resolution textures gobble RAM like no one's business (I have V2 textures that approach 20 megs...and that is just the body. Add the face tex, which can tip the scale at 8megs, the mesh, and then add all the joint parameter shift info for the actual animation. I've got 300 frame PZ3's that tip the scale at close to 100 megs. And that is only 1 nude figure with no hair). If you are serious about animating with Vue and Poser, get Mover 5. And start offering to take those old, decrepit computers off your friends hands for nothing. You don't need state of the art for a hobbyist rendergarden, and old P-2's will do just fine....

I tried importing a small animation from poser into vue. It was only 18 frames and I didn't know what I was doing. I set both of them to the same frame rate. I opened the time line and found some buttons on the right hand side for render options. But when I rendered it, some of the frames rendered perfectly, but in others the whole figure was gone and only her clothes were there. Now my G5 is being repaired anyway so I can't try anymore, but it wasn't working. Maybe it was something I was doing wrong as I've never imported an animation before. Love esther

Being a PC-Windows person, I couldn't say, esther; but I do know that there can be issues between Poser and Vue on the Mac platforms. That;s about the limit of my knowledge.... :

oh. They didn't give any warnings on their website about it. Kidding, I know they wouldn't do that. Love esther