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Holli, I don't think it's possible-- not that I know of at least. There doesn't seem to be any importing available for AVI or QT. Sorry. :( Cheers, Mike

Could you import an animated model from poser to vue and still keep the animation, without exporting/importing each frame?

I would tend to doubt it. I have not seen any other import formats other than Vue's native formats and the 3D formates and picture formats... no .avi or .mov. But, of course, you CAN make a Poser flick and export every frame as .obj and all, so then your Poser cahracter is interacting with your Vue environment. I would seriously doubt you could import only keyframes and expect to get the Poser character to act how you want. It is too bad that avi's can't be imported in their entirety, but if you think about it, they'd have to play on the sky, and anything added in Vue, animation wise or scenery wise would all be in the foreground. I would do it the other way around, and import a Vue animation into Poser. Cheers, Mike

heyas; poser's pz3 file structure holds its animation information and... unfortunately, is only readable by poser. (it used to be readable by ray dream 5.02....) so, no, you can't do poser animations in vue. (but don't feel bad, nobody else can do poser animations in anything else, either...) even if you put the poser figure in vue and set up the rotation points on all the pieces into a poser figure heirarchy, you still couldn't animate it correctly, because vue would not preserve the welds between all the body parts. they did do a short animation tutorial with the zygote fish. if you follow along with that and try some extreme moves with the fish, you can see what i mean.

I just want to clear up what I meant. I figure you could export each pose in the movie as a separate object, couldn't you? Would it be possible to say, have him walking while clouds roll by, as long as you got all the poses in the right order, or would Vue's key-framing screw up the sequence? I have to admit to being completely ignorant of Vue's animation abilities. I still haven't tried anything other than the tutorial! Cheers, Mike

heyas; mike, yes you can export each frame as one obj. there was a sorta forced workaround for sending a poser animation to ray dream. you would do just that, and import all the objs into your scene. then, on frame one, you would 'hide' all the copies of stuff except the first frame... in the second frame, you'd hide 'em all except #2, etc, hiding all but the current frame object in sequence. i'm not sure if vue has a 'hide' feature like ray dream does, though.