Wabe, I'm glad you asked this question, because I too was wondering about all this exporting going on. I've been reading some good answers here too, which is helping me understand. I haven't had the need to export from Vue (who knows, I may in the future - but I'm not a graphics professional), but when I download an object from a store or bring it in from another application like Poser, I always keep the original model (with textures) in the same folder as the .vob I create for Vue. Then if there is an object I want to use in Mojoworld or World Builder, I just grab the object from the directory and leave Vue out of it. I do think that once E-on fixes the broken export code, export will again work as it should. Objects themselves weren't affected, only the code that handles them was.

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