Vue Esprit 6.10 - Build 291200. OSX 10.4.9 & Poser 7 SP2 I have seen people having issues with importing P7 props into V6. I'm still having weird random success. For instance, a "decotech" prop column will import, but a DAZ prop guitar won't. All items in the PZ3 are from the same runtime. The param dials for said props show up in the edit window, but no geometry in the scene. Now that Poser and Esprit are being bundled together, one would think this a major issue to be addressed. Some have said this is resolved in the latest Infinite update, is this true? I'm using Esprit's latest update. Is there an update coming for Esprit?

I am sure there is an update coming for Esprit. But when, only e-on knows.

There are several reasons why an import can go wrong - obviously not all problems are solved at the moment. One is that maybe some of the geometry files are obz and not obj. Check for that. Another is that Poser writes wrong pathnames to the geometry into the pz3 files. I have seen that and when I corrected those manually the import worked. A third I found and have reported is that some pz3 files have strange "hidden part" infos in them - maybe parts that are treated as hidden because they are covered by clothes. This I was not able to solve myself and manually but it happened and is reproducable.

Okay - this doesn't fix the problem - but just as a workaround:

Maybe you could download and try this in the PLE  Vue 6 Infinite version ?!
Where you trying to load the P7 props into a already bigger scene or are you trying to load the props into a new and empty scene ?!
If it would work in a fresh empty scene, you could save the props as Vue objects and then load them into your scene...
Or you could export your not working props already in P7 as wave-objects and use those in Vue ...
Or maybe some setting in the P7 preferences - misc. settings have to be activated/deactived to get better results ...

Well, only until working updates would be released ...

Well, I've been trying to import PZ3s to both new, empty scenes and previously saved ones. And also I have used the PLE version with the same results. I doubt if they update the PLE. I guess work arounds are always possible, I just needed some definite answers on what was available. I assumed e-on was making their software from the top-down, disabling features for the lower cost versions, that's why, if there's a fix for Infinite, there should easily be one for Esprit (I thought), but who knows? Thanks for your input. I appreciate it. Let the waiting begin...

I'm baa-ack. I did a little digging into the test PZ3 I was using and also the associated prop pp2 files. The pp2 files with embedded obj information would load just fine, the PZ3 copies the info. The pp2 files that reference an external obj geometry file won't load in Vue. These also had a syntax error in the path which I assume Poser just copies into the PZ3 (it was the same). The pp2s didn't include ":Downloads" or lowercase ":runtime." which is where I keep 'em. So editing the PZ3 works around this. I've also found that Vue6 in OSX doesn't like slashes (/) as separators in the path; only colons (:). I think Poser does a search every time it loads a file, so it finds the geometry. Apparently Vue doesn't search, at least not outside it's own app folder, so chances are good it won't load it. Unfortunately, it also doesn't ASK to find the missing file either, boo. Let me know if this helps or is not correct. I've gotten all to load now, even PROP HAIR (omg). :)