Forum: Vue


Subject: I'm thinking about buying Vue 5 Infinite

wildstormfilms opened this issue on Jan 09, 2006 ยท 57 posts


Phantast posted Fri, 13 January 2006 at 5:12 AM

About Poser specularity - Poser uses black highlights as a way of turning highlights off - this imports sensibly into Vue; a black highlight colour means no specularity in both applications. Poser defines specularity otherwise by a specularity setting (0.0 - 1.0) and a highlight size. These are equivalent to the two parameters Vue uses, they are just in different units - a highlight size of 0.001 in Poser should translate to something like 90% shininess in Vue. Vue simply doesn't read this. It ignores the highlight size, whatever you set it to in Poser, and just sets shininess to 20%, which often looks awful. There is nothing you can do about this. It would take an e-on programmer probably only a few minutes to convert the highlight size into an appropriate shininess setting. It just hasn't been done. Similarly with reflection maps - if Vue can understand Poser's transparency maps it can understand Poser's reflection maps. There are no technical difficulties - the Poser material info is all there in ASCII. The fact that Vue translates some parts of a Poser material and ignores the rest is just laziness.