Ok, I'm a total newbie at this sort of thing, and I'm probably doing something amazingly stupid, but...

All I want to do is export a piece of dynamic clothing from Poser to Shade, cut a few bits off, and get it back into poser.

The first shock was to find that Shade imports hardly any formats (DXF seems to be the only one that Poser exports, but when I try, it seems to load into Shade but there's actually nothing there.)

Then I thought of 'Poserfusion'. It tells me that I need to tell it where my poser installation is, so I do. And then it tells me 'No valid Poser installation detected.'

I know how to get stuff from Shade into poser, but I'd be really grateful if someone would tell me how to get an item from Poser 6 to Shade. I presume it must surely be possible!

Many thanks!

Make sure you are choosing the right directory for PoserFusion. It would be your Poser 6 directory, nothing deeper than that. As for the DXF import, it is actually there. Poser scale is so small, that importing through a normal import brings in a microscopic model :) - Noel

You need to save your scene from Poser as a PZ3. Open Shade and from View, select Poserfusion to see the Poserfusion options. Open your scene here to import. If you want to alter the model, rather than the cloth as made dynamic in the scene, the import the cloth's obj and edit that and import it as a prop to Poser to clothify it. If you have created the dynamic image and want to edit that, then export it as an object from your scene and again, open this obj file in Shade.

Thanks for the replies. I'm starting to wonder if there's some problem with my copy of poser or shade. I'm pointing shade to my p6 directory, but it still tells me that I've no valid poser installation.

Indeed nothing is wrong with your Shade version. Shade8 is supposed to be better integrated, and will be available in autum

Shade8 is supposed to be better integrated, and will be available in autumn<< Well, great, but I just bought Shade 7, so I'm not sure that this is good news! I think I might soon be kicking myself for not sticking with the free apps like Wings or Blender. I'd assumed that since it was from the same company, Shade would be much more Poser-friendly, not less. Oh well. Another one down to experience! Thanks again.

When you say you just bought Shade 7, how recently was that? If you take a look at www.e-frontier.com go to the newletter, it says that if you buy Shade 7 now, you will get a free upgrade to Shade 8. My newletter arrived on the 18th August, so if you bought after this, then you're OK. If you bought very soon before this, then contact e-frontier and ask nicely - they may or may not but it doesn't hurt to ask and as they're keen to promote Shade, they might be that extra bit nice.

My version is 7.1.3 - maybe I better go check for an update!

(Just did, and they're up to 7.2.1 I think I just found my problem)

Thanks!