Not being able to see the ship while moving in Vue is normal. The amount of polygons is very high. Only a high end professional 3D graphics card (nVidia Quadro series, 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm) can keep up and draw the ship while it's being moved.

Solution: do the positioning in Poser, not in Vue. Rendering and lighting in Poser is difficult or impossible, but you can place the figures on deck without any trouble.
Then use the separate .pz3/vob trick as described. And for high quality skin, you can enhance an existing skin texture using the shader set by dburdick. The commercial version, SkinVue2, available at Cornucopia, does approximately the same thing for skin in Vue as the face_off RealSkinShader does in Poser.

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