After 24 hours of downloading I was happy to start working with Vue 6. The problem is, that many of the contents are not detected by Vue 6. When I use Eco Systems Materials there is allways something that hast to be located manually. Any hints?

I guess you are talking about textures. That always was a sort of weak point in Vue, that there are only some default places where the program looks for textures. My workflow always is to embedd all textures into everything i save - material, object or scene. Then i am save.

Hi Wabe
The problem is, that the whole installation is a mess ( I don't blame Vue). I downloaded the Set-Up-Date onto a separate external Hard-Disk and installed Vue afterwards. Files which are physicaly in the correct folders are not recognized by Vue because Vue is searching in the wrong directory. No I deinstalled everything but now I receive the message that there isn't enought disc-space....

I just found some of the sample images won't load properly either because the .prv files are missing for some items or something like that!!

Ah! yes, I found an answer to that one in an earlier thread i started on it!

It seems Vue 6 put a lot of stuff in an e-on folder in mydocs and that's where you'll find most of the other bits that you have in the V5 installation, that's where mine were at least!

Quote - ...It seems Vue 6 put a lot of stuff in an e-on folder in mydocs and that's where you'll find most of the other bits that you have in the V5 installation, that's where mine were at least!

Could the fact that I have a german Windows XP (Eigene Dateien instead of MyDocs) cause problems as well?

Can you tell me the exact name of the mydocs folder. I have the idea that I copy the Vue-stuff from my "Eigene Dateien" into a new folder that "imitates" the english version of XP.

Now that I don't have an answer for, sorry!! 

So many people have said they dont like vue installing to my documents that I would ahve thought by this version they would have vue installing to the
Vue folder instead of my documents.

I always remove the installed Vue stuff from my documents and put into the default Vue folder.
  Yes its a pain sometimes but worth ir to me in the long run.
Why they insist to put it into my documents instead of giving us a selection to install to I dont understand but then again a lot e-on does I will never understand. :(

You can actually specify the folder that VUE installs its contents to, or like suggested, just move it over after.

You can actually choose where you want your content to be upon installation. You just need to read the paths chosen by the installer, and change them if you want another folder.

I'm having the same issue.. Vue can't find the tree, plant or rock prv files, because it's looking in the root folders, not the sub folders they are actually installed in.

I'm also having issues with it not finding vin hdri files, and wanting to substitue something else.

The only workaround I found for the prv files, was to take all plant files,and dump them in th emain plant folder.

I still have no clue where the vin files need to be located in order for v6 to find them.

Seems only a few people are having this issue.. I'm wondering if someone accidently sent the wrong version files to servers to download from?

Reinstalls won;t help,  and neither will uninstall /reinstalls.

I posted a ticket about this and got a reply yesterday, It said that the folders that installed to Mydocs can be safely moved to the main programme so I'm gonna try that later!

I think the reasoning behind this new setup is to keep all of the actual program modules in Vue 6 Infiinte and all of the 'stuff' in another folder.  I've done that for a long time before e-on did it for me.  Makes backup of my objects,materials, etc. so much easier.  It usually takes a few messages to find things at the beginning, then the program settles in with its new pointers.

The .prv files that the program keeps asking for are found in the main Plants folder.  A glitch that will be corrected in another release.  Locating the file (tropic1.prv) doesn't hurt.  Yesterday, it asked me for that file when I was loading an atmosphere, which didn't make any sense, so I clicked no to not find it.  Nothing bad happened. 

Yeah, it's weird.. if you elect NOT to find the file, it loads it fine.

Relocating the files to the main plant folder also works, and stops the annoying "can't find" popup.

Not sure where the vim files are supposed to go yet though.

Man, am I ever glad I read this thread.  Being brand new to Vue, I would never in my wildest dreams thought to look in my documents folder.  This is coming from a Mac user so it seems to be hitting both platforms.  I would have missed the sample scenes and tutorials as well.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, I can move all those folders into my Vue applications folder?
Or is it better to leave them in the documents folder and point Vue there a few times before it learns where they are?

And what exactly is a .prv file?

prv - see it as "preview" ariannah.

I would never put anything of personal or especially bought stuff into a place where the program wants me to do it. Think about a reinstallation. On PC side uninstall, on Mac a simple delete of the application folder. And you have one of those bad hair days and forgot to backup this. All gone - yeah!

So i created my own structures somewhere else and link that into Vue then. Gives me as well the opportunity to use the same content (collections) for the different Vue versions i have installed - without any problems btw. And i do not need an automatic deteczion of items, i can easily do the one step to show the program where my files are. If you do it clever it is simply a one hit click really - not a big thing.

e-on said you could do it no problem!      DON'T BELIEVE THEM!

I copied them over from the MyDocs and then deleted the folders from the Mydocs but left them in the recycle bin.

Anyway Vue couldn't find Shit when I had them with the appliaction folders so I restored them back from the recycle bin, I'm leaving them where they were now!!! [In MyDocs].

Thanks for the replies, wabe & fixer.

After all I went through to get V6I downloaded and installed plus being scared to death it will count as my second install or something the nodelocked license controls.......I'm terrified to mess with it and reinstall.

Why does this has to be so difficult?
Why can't the folders that ended up in my documents folder be in the applications folder where IMO, they belong as the default install location?

Gad, I'm so confused and honestly don't know what to do now.

ariannah, I'd leave them in MyDocs for now, most stuff works ok, it's only the odd little thing that it doesn't seem to find and mainly for me at least it's on the sample files that it can't find stuff!