Hush... I'm at work when I'm writing, so sometime I have to hurry to finish: Stupid trick 5:

I think that Poser does a lot better job of rendering people than Vue. The problems with Poser are; One no network rendering. And the dam sniffer that complains if you have Poser running on two different computers that is hooked up to a network. Two, Poser is slow at rendering. But Poser renders skin and hair textures so much better than them imported into Vue. Vue on the other hand, is very good and making environments, indoors or outdoors over Poser. With that said wouldn't it be nice to use both programs?

Posers cameras do have dimensions. Poser tell the pose window to show only the outline of the camera. It would be nice just to tell Vue 'Imports Poser's main camera' I don't have Vue infinite or the python programming skills so I use a stupid trick.

Using a cone prop to represent the camera when the Poser scene is imported into Vue does work. You have to make sure that you can still see your Poser scene and have the round end act like the lens. Then parented to the camera, so if you have a camera zoom and sweep to one side the cone will have the same as the camera.

The problem is scenes the cone prop has a camera as a parent, when importing into Vue, It will get ignored. The current solution is to make another cone that matches the camera cone. If anyone knows how to get rid of the parenting by editing the pz3 files let me know.

Make a Poser scene where only objects are in the foreground and the people are in it. Import that scene into Vue. Now add the background. Then go back to Poser and make a save of only the one cone. Import the cone and put it where the other come is. Then delete the old Poser scene so only the camera cone is there. Now link Vue's camera to the cone and render.

With this render, use it as a background and render the same scene in Poser.

The results are stunning. You get the quality of Poser people and the background sky's and objects of Vue all matching. Of course you have to think little about matching the lighting.

Posers long render times are not that bad because it's really not rendering the whole scene. The real problem is unparenting the camera cone frame by frame. Ok for a two second shot but I wouldn't want to do this for a five minute short.

Dale

Message edited on: 05/28/2005 00:54

Message edited on: 05/28/2005 00:57