cuddlejacket opened this issue on Jun 08, 2001 ยท 74 posts
PJF posted Sun, 10 June 2001 at 6:20 PM
Jackson, I think the way Vue4 will import Poser items with everything set automatically is that it will import a .PZ3 file (Poser's own file format) rather than a model that has been exported from Poser. A .PZ3 file contains all the textures and their settings within itself, so you or Vue don't have to go hunting all over the place for them. This is fine (and hopefully will be adopted by Corel in addition to the current method) but I can see it leading to some potential hassle of its own. If the .PZ3 file contains the figure by itself, then all is well. But if the figure you want is within a complex Poser scene, all that other stuff will import too - and deleting any extraneous items in Vue or Bryce might be very difficult. To avoid that, in Poser you will have to delete all other items in the scene, and save the lone figure as a new Poser file, or save the figure to the libary, close the old scene, open a new one and add the figure to it. This in itself might be more hassle than just exporting the one figure. I don't use Poser for scenes, so this won't be a problem for me; and I'd welcome .PZ3 import. But it is something to consider.