I want to purchase SkinVue 6.3 to used with V3, M3 and V4. I was reading it requires a plugin?

Confused and thanks!

There's two plugins - one is for the DAZ figures (V3/4 etc) and one is for the CP figures (james, jessie etc)

so you buy the base product and whichever plugin you are going to use

plugins ?

yup, there is the base SkinVue and you need to get whichever plugin is for the figures you plan to use.  I only ever use the DAZ figures so I just have that one

Well o'tay then thanks Frank.

And if you're running a 64 bit 'puter it won't work!!

Quote - And if you're running a 64 bit 'puter it won't work!!

Sigh ... this never ceases to disappoint me.

I understand why it can't work yet, but ... I hate not using skinvue and I won't go back to 32bit windows. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Luckily, the poser materials setting works on my machine - almost reliably  :)

I know Dave is working on a 64 bit version, not sure when it's out though!!

Quote - And if you're running a 64 bit 'puter it won't work!!

I run a 32-bit not enough hardware and programs out on 64-bit to warrant a change. And since I only use poser and Vue as a hobby and not a full time career I don't see the sense in spending the cash on a new OS just for hobby apps. Not only that in 2009, or there abouts, Microsoft will be releasing an entirely new OS now named windows 7. I will wait and see how Vista moves along and what this new OS will be. I don't have the funds to switch operating systems on a whim nor to keep up with the Joneses. In time I want to move to another OS but with the state of the economy in this country I could be homeless in 2009 so a 64-bit OS will have to wait.

Thanks for all the help my friends! 

Just a tip for those running 64 bit os, you can run 2 installations of vue, one 64 and one 32.
Whenever i need a character skinvu'ed i open 32 and save character after finishing as a vob and then open it up in x64.
You might run in to license problems with dual installations but worked fine for me anyways, and now i cant live without skinvue :)

Earliest date for Windows 7 is now 2010!!
Also don't forget Vue does use 64 bit so you can throw loads of RAM at it, seeing as you already have Vue, a new OS and more RAM might not come as expensive as you think my friend!!

So whats the hoo-doo about Windows 7 ? Do you honestly think it's gonna be stable? :D I wouldnt hold breath or anything. Most folks waitied for Vista and XP sucks this and or that. Now everyone is trashing Vista and damning MS becauser they discontinued XP. It will always be the same.In 50 60 years people are gonna be complaing there robot chaeufers need to be recharged to many times in a year. It is an endless cycle. No matter much better,bigger,stronger,faster machine and perograms become it will bever be good enough for any of us:D Look at vue 4 -vs- 6 and yet we still bitch there trees suck:D And all in all, no matter how good anything is RAM cannot make art(;

Wow!! You been on that stuff again Trepz??? 

64 bit Vue with 8GB is much more stable than 32 bit Vue. It never runs out of memory unless I do something really stupid (that ecosystem will result in 1 bajillion instances. do you know what you are doing? yes. no.) Poser Pro 64 bit is to me also more stable than Poser 7 32 bit.

Vue: Ecosystem with a few billion polys? No problemo.

Quote - I know Dave is working on a 64 bit version, not sure when it's out though!!

if it ever is released, it will likely be a long time away still. After all, he is at it since late in 2006 if I recall correctly, and so far, no result I would have seen came from it. ^_^"

Although, if memory serves correctly, it is not really his fault, but the people doing the python interface he uses. But whatever, the result is the same. No SkinVue for x64. :-(

Quote - Just a tip for those running 64 bit os, you can run 2 installations of vue, one 64 and one 32.
Whenever i need a character skinvu'ed i open 32 and save character after finishing as a vob and then open it up in x64.
You might run in to license problems with dual installations but worked fine for me anyways, and now i cant live without skinvue :)

Although I refuse to buy a 2nd V6Inf license just to use SkinVue, it would interest me how you can force Vue 6 Infinite to run in x86 mode even on a x64 machine? When I installed V6Inf, it didn't ask me which version I wanted. It automatically used the x64 one. (Using Vista Ultimate x64, btw.)

Dont know about infinite, i have the xStream version so that might be the reason.
I got a dialog where i can choose if i want x64 or 32, and i also dont need an extra license for installing multiple copies, but like i said, might because i have the xstream version.

Infinite allows you to install it on 2 machines as I recall.  So if you set your PC to dual boot 32 bit and 64 bit, that's how you do it

Mh. Alright. Thank you both. Though I still think it is an akward solution at best if you only have a single computer at your disposal... ^_^"

Quote - > Quote - I know Dave is working on a 64 bit version, not sure when it's out though!!

if it ever is released, it will likely be a long time away still. After all, he is at it since late in 2006 if I recall correctly, and so far, no result I would have seen came from it. ^_^"

Although, if memory serves correctly, it is not really his fault, but the people doing the python interface he uses. But whatever, the result is the same. No SkinVue for x64. :-(

Quote - Just a tip for those running 64 bit os, you can run 2 installations of vue, one 64 and one 32.
Whenever i need a character skinvu'ed i open 32 and save character after finishing as a vob and then open it up in x64.
You might run in to license problems with dual installations but worked fine for me anyways, and now i cant live without skinvue :)

Although I refuse to buy a 2nd V6Inf license just to use SkinVue, it would interest me how you can force Vue 6 Infinite to run in x86 mode even on a x64 machine? When I installed V6Inf, it didn't ask me which version I wanted. It automatically used the x64 one. (Using Vista Ultimate x64, btw.)

The 64-bit version of wxPython is being developed so that SkinVue can run interactively on 64-bit machines.  There have been a number of false starts/delays on this primarily because 64-bit Python was not ready.  With the 2.5 release of Python, it is now fully 64-bit across all the major platforms.  Sp ho[pefully, we will have a 64-bit version of wxPython (the GUI) soon.

I conveniently have two machines, one 64 bit, one 32. I installed Vue on both, I use Skin Vue on the 32 bit one and transfer the .vob over to the 64 bit one. It's a royal pain since the file paths differ enough for me to get the occasional where-is-the-file question.

Also IMHO if the character is in the background, going through their material settings and turning off the "blend with cyan" option and setting highlights to ~30% white or light grey/sky blue often suffices.