I got these three so I could make up scenes with 3D people doing everyday things in a home, car, ect... in beauty. But I can not seem to figure out a good way to construct buildings, and rooms, and move about the 3D figures. In Poser you can only pose, not arange pieces accurately. Or build anything. In Vue I keep losing things out of camera view. When I try to insert a car fron the Vue Extra CD, It gets lost or I can not find it. It's an ordeal to set up anything but land scenes, which I'm not into much. Can anyone relate to this? Advice and help would be most welcome from those who have had success at what I am all thumbs at.

Best thing for you to do would be to start reading tutorials, I learned and still learn a lot from them. Also if you have a problem ask a specific question like, what you were doing when you had the problem, and what is happening now. You will get it, it just takes time. We were all new and went through a lot of the same things you are going through. There are lots of folks here to help you out so don't give up. Welcome! Marque

Actually, you can create things in poser. that's not what poser's primary function is, but by putting to use various pieces, such as the primitives props, the grouping tool and a little creative thinking, there's lots you can create. To include walls, doors, staircases, archways, chairs, tables, etc etc. There are several tutorials around to get you started. 8-)

If you want accurate positioning in Poser, you'll have to start using all your camera and display options. The top, side, and front views are very useful in such tasks, and Poser 5's multi-pane windows allow you to view a scene from multiple angles simultaneously. The wireframe and outline display modes provide much-needed "x-ray vision" when dealing with obscured or crowded scenes. You can also use the Hierarchy Editor to toggle off the visibility of specific actors and figures to better see what's going on.

But yes, Poser isn't really intended for content creation, despite geep's evidence to the contrary. It's meant for use with pre-made content. You can use the included primitives to quickly slap together some simple environments, but if you really want to build stuff I'd recommend a modeling application. Try out some of the freeware that's available (Wings, Blender, etc.) before investing in one of the commercial packages.

Seems like a lot to try and learn at once; 2 fairly complex applications and Mover! I don't use Mover, but have been at Vue for about 3 years and Poser about 2, and I'm still learning a lot. I think maybe you need to concentrate on one app at a time. For example, learn how to use Poser first; tons of tutorials here, at DAZ, and all over the net. Same with Vue; there's a great group of folks at the Vue forum here, and lots of helpful links to tutorials and resources over there, and the people here at the Poser forum always go out of their way to help. I couldn't have done much trying to learn it all at once, so concentrated on Vue first, got the basics of it, then started in Poser. Trying to run before you walk is likely to make you very frustrated!

** In Poser you can only pose, not arange pieces accurately. Or build anything ** This is not true. It takes patience and 'micro management', but you can really achieve very detailed 'arrangements' with those and some practice. As for building, that's closer to true, since poser is not a 3d modelling tool. But combining and reshaping even just the primitive props, and using properly textures, transparencies and displacement maps, you can do plenty of seeming impossible things... like buildings, fences, terrain, water... and many more 'scenery' stuff. And as already many pointed out, manuals and tutorials really are a must! Then move to browsing the forums and communities for looking at what other users made and how they did. This is a really good place to start, another one with good tuts and freebies is runtimedna.com. Welcome on board, and... most important: have fun!

Stick with it GoN2GraceLand as it really is worth the effort. I am fairly new to Vue4Pro and at first was a little lost. The manual doesn't seem to tell you much and when I tried to buy something like one of the bible/dummies/Using books on Amazon I discovered there was no such thing for Vue :(

However it all starts to fall into place eventually and the results can be spectacular.

With the cameras you need to straight away 'store camera' (little icon that looks like a diskette) and then you can move your current view but still go back to your old one. You can do this as many times as you need which stores lots of different views, it's pretty cool. I found that selecting the item I want to move around makes camera movement easier also.

Resizing, moving etc is all so different to Poser that it will take you a while to get used to it but as I say, it's worth the effort IMHO.

I would like to thank Marque,who has encouraged my progress and for the many dinners ay Speedy Big Burger. ExistentialDisorder, who lent me his camper for the week I spent at the art convention. Little_Drago, because...well...what can I say but "Little", but a big heart. Djeser, for getting me out of so many fixes I got into, and for the language help in my upcoming novel and movie to follow. stemardue, who cooked for all of us on that retreat in Des Moine, which we like to think of as not a "retreat", but an "advance". kristinf who got lost in work piled 2 foot high, and paid the bills for the girl in Cattle Town. I could never have gotte this award with out the help and dedication of these people believeing in an idea, and backing it with great personal cost to themselves. Let me not forget the San Lukas fire department and the crew in the rescue unit.

You're hysterical, girl! Having a bit of fun are we now?

The Great Santini....Hehe