Tiny sent me a scene to test, here is the result. Key message #1 - it worked as you can see in the Cinema 4D preview renderer. Key message #2 - Poser does not import the file correctly. A problem with Poser 6. Needs to be reported i think. Major issue for mistakes is one little automatic thing Vue does i found. When an object is selected in the scene, the export scene dialog switches to "export selected object only". Hard to see, easily overseen. I switched that off and had everything - beside some locked for export items in the scene - in the 3ds file. Even the lights. And much more amazing, the camera came over as well correctly!!! A zone i have not verified so far is the texture/material part of the exports. I am interested in meshes more than in materials. Reason? Materials are highly dependant to the source application. Every program has it's individual settings that are difficult to understand for an importing program. That is normal. But osme basics should work of course and i will check that a little more detailed the next days probably.
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