Hi everyone! I'm trying to import a Poser 6 scene into Vue 5 Esprit (latest update ;-) ). I've done this at least a dozen times already and it always worked fine. Separate binary is deactivated, so no trouble there. But now comes: M3 comes into Vue correctly from the .pz3, with all clothes and some furniture - but the beautiful Plasma TV from Sams3D does not. Tracking the prob down, I found that many objects from Sams3D just do not turn up when imported to Vue - the import starts, asks for the grouping and then nothing more... no error, no message, no object. Tried the gum machine, some curtains, the computer. I know I've done it before in Vue 4 with, for example, a room. Is the problem with Vue or with Poser 6 (SR1 installed)? The objects seem to work perfectly within P6, however. When I export them a .OBJ, they will load in Vue. Any ideas? Or can at least someone confirm that it's not just me having this problem? Thanks! firebolt

Could it be that the geometry and/or the textures are in a location where Vue does not expect them to be? Like in a Runtime that is not the Poser 6 one - or anything like that. Just a guess. Try to install one of the props maybe in the Poser 6 default Runtime (if it is not the case) and test it again. Maybe Sharen (SAMS3D) reads it too and can say something to that - would be perfect.

do you have any other 3D programs? I have heard that not all files are alike.. if you import it into some other program and do one little change to it, then export again it'll probably work. kinda the same thing you're doing with exporting to Obj.

Don't know if this will help, but I'm using V5I(latest update), and imported a PZ3 with a Sams3d house(cr2) and a dock(prop) in it and all imported perfectly. Very strange behavior indeed :( Hope you get it figured out.

Load the Poser file into Poser 6 and re-save it in Poser format with a different name. Then see if Vue imports the new file fine.

Thanks for your answers. @wabe: They are in the default Poser6Runtime folder. However, I tried installing some additional objects there and none of them worked in Vue while they are perfectly fine in Poser (i. e. the Log Cabin, the Sun Dial etc.). However, using the Dance Studio from the same directory still works when importing into Vue just as do the playground objects or the Hour Glass. Even the materials of the non-working objects are in no way more complex or much different from the ones that work. The geometries themselves seem to work fine when @thomllama: I don't think I have any other app capable of opening .pz3 format files. And as OBJ works directly, there is no need changing it. @dlk30341: Thanks for trying. Maybe someone else will try with V5E... @SHONNER: Have already saved different objects under different names to close in on the problem, but to no success. Even changing the materials on an object, saving it as a new .cr2 and putting this into a new scene has not been of any use. I seem to run out of ideas what to try...

Could it be then that Vue is looking to the wrong Poser installation? That you had Poser 5 installed, connected Vue to that and have not changed that to Poser 6? Effects as you described them can happen then. For example when you import something from Poser 6 that was installed in Poser 5 as well - then of course Vue will find all sources. But things that are ONLY installed in Poser 6 will not work then. Maybe you check that in the Vue preferences.

Wow, stupid one... Thanks, wabe! That was it. Had my Poser 4 libraries copied to P6, but not redirected Vue. Things seemed to work fine at first, so why worry?! ;-) Happily going to get on with my project now... Have a nice weekend!

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