Ok, I'm stumped.

I import a pz3 into Vue. All comes over perfectly - except the ponytail.
It's there - sort of.
I don't get the actual tail. It looks like only the cap comes over, but none of the tail.
If I export it as an object and import into Vue it shows just fine (Aside from the texture being... well. Not really transparent.)

Here is the image with both versions in it. The left is the obj, with the textures semi-fixed (arrgghh trans on hair is a pain!) the right is the P5 import with nothing whatsoever done to it.
I tried grouped and ungrouped. Same result. The ponytail braid does not show up, the scullcap does.

Any idea whats going on here?

Forgot to mention it comes over as 'Head', no other items in the list, where in the Obj I have Figure3 with bangs and whatnot.

Bangs aren't there either.

Message edited on: 08/26/2004 04:09

Could you give a little more information wether this is the only hair where the transmap does not come through? Or wether you mostly have the problem with transmaps? My feeling is, that if the transmap problem is solved then the rest is done too. Could you tell what version of Vue you are using (Esprit or Pro)? What system and what update? With Mover 5 or without? Is helpful. And what hair it is too of course. Dynamic or not, etc etc.

It's Esprit, not Pro, running on WinXp Pro, version is (I think) 4.22 or whichever the latest patch was. That seems to be the only one where the transmap really don't wanna know, but I'm not 100% certain on that. I'll have to fiddle some more and see if any other things do it. (I usually paint the hair) No Mover 5. It's not dynamic hair, it's the ultimate changing ponytail from daz. Someone suggested that perhaps it was having problems with the actual changer of the ponytail and that might be why it's happening. (the not bringing the tail over on an imported PZ3) Ideally I want to import the pz3 with the complete ponytail. The obj test was just to see if it will bring the tail over with that. (Which it did, but no transmapping will take) I'll experiment some more and report back.

Maybe someone who has that hair too can test it! Would be great. I don't have it, therefore i can't help you with it really. But would be good to see some reports when you have done some tests. Do you have Poser 4 on your system too? I had some weird problems when i had both versions of Poser on my system and tried to import some P5 pz3's into Vue while it still was pointed to Poser 4.

Is it the Ultimate Changing Ponytail @ DAZ? Because I have used it in a number of renders in Vue without issue...

Don't know if this will help or not but I have had simalar problems with various hair pieces and one thing that has worked for me is change the parent of the hair object to the head and check the box inherit the movements of the body. then save it and then re-import it. I don't know why this works and it is not 100 percent, i found it out by accident.

The ponytail hasn't given me any troubles, which is ofcourse no help to you. Sorry. Hope you can get it working. I do have poser 4 though instead of 5. And Vue d'Esprit 4.