I bought the Donkey, Hippo, and Bison models from DAZ and was under the impression that I would be able to use them in VUE. Somebody said the best way is to use Poser. Well I don't have poser, am I out of luck?

Yes, you are! These figures you bought are for use in Poser, and then you can import them fully posed in Vue. If you don't have Poser, you can download the free DAZ Studio program, which does the posing of your figures just like Poser. You'll need to import the posed figures as obj in Vue, and you may have material importing issues. But that's the only way for you if you don't intend to buy Poser.

actually DAZ|Studio can export PZ3 now, so...

If you want to import a pz3, Vue will ask the path to the poser.exe, and if it's not on your HD, then I don't know if it will import.

ah, good point. Hmm, that would be interesting to find out

You CAN try to import the obj (under Runtime/Geometry/... ) but then you have to apply the textures manually. But this way you should be able to import the meshes.

You can load and pose the models in DAZ|Studio, then go to File - Export and export the posed model as new object. Use the Bryce option in the dialog window and simply leave everything checked there. In Vue go to File Object import and import your objects. This way the textures should be applied correctly as well.

Buy Poser! :tt2: :lol:

Mazak

I just did, but can't seem to get these files into Poser 6, it doesn't see their extentions.......old versions?

You have to install the items in Poser first. Then pose them in Poser and save that result then as pz3. This you then can import into Vue. This is the normal process for it.

Maybe I wasn't clear, I don't think POSER 6 sees those files so how do I import them?

Don't you have an installer with the files? I think so  - i have it. Use that and install all where it proposes it - inside the Poser 6 Runtime.

You as well can install it to another directory and then get a file structure exactly as it needs to be in Poser. You then manually move the appropriate files to the related parts in the Poser Runtime (Geometry to Geometry, Character to Character, Textures to textures etc etc) then Poser will see the files under Character and/or Poses.

I tried importing a Poser object (an alien) into Vue. But an error message pops up saying that Vue was unable to read the file. Did I get a corrupt download? Or is Vue unable to open certain types of Poser files?

What file did you try to import and how did you try to import it?

The way I import a poser model is:

1. Open Poser
2. Load the model in Poser
3. Pose the model in Poser
4. Save a pz3 file from Poser
5. Close Poser
6. Open Vue
7. Open the pz3

Cheers  Mark

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Based on the info provided above, I must own Poser and have it installed on my computer in order to correctly import Poser objects into Vue. Am I correct?

I do not have Poser.

Disregard the message above. I have just downloaded DAZ Studio and I loaded the alien figure into the application. I used the frame tool to have the camera aim at the figure. How to I get the figure into Vue?

Since your using Daz Studio you'll need to follow the method from Puntomaus' post above.  Vue only directly imports pz3 scenes if you have a version of Poser installed.

Thank you all for your help. My problems are solved