I am taking delivery of my new Alienware 64bit behemoth next week, which means I will want to update my Vue 6 Pro Studio to Vue 8 Complete to take advantage of the four cores and all that lovely 64bit memory address space.

I don't plan to update my other tools such as Poser 6 and Hexagon 1, so I'm checking if Poser 6 and Vue 8.x play nice.

Also, I notice that 8.5 Infinite has been announced, does that mean if I upgrade now I will get Complete 8.4 and then have to pay for the 8.5 update as well in the near future?

Mark

The Artists line doesn't get the .5  releases, only the Pro line. There won't be, AFAIK, a Vue 8.5 Complete, Artist line will stay at 8.4 until Vue9. This has been like this since Vue7, so I imagine it'll be the same with Vue8

Thanks for the response.

I didn't want to upgrade and then find myself handing over even more money!

So I just need to check if anybody is using Vue 8.x with Poser 6?

I use Vue 8.4 Inf with Posers 6, 7 and 8 with no issues except the Vue one where it doesn't load some shaders properly..

Thanks, I suppose I should have asked if 64bit causes a problem here, but if it's just a case of reading files, that shouldn't matter.

Dare I ask if 8.4 is a stable release? (Yes, I know 'Vue' and 'stable' don't belong in the same sentence, but I have to ask - I've been burned before)

I'm also on 64 bit
For stability questions I suggest you take a look at these two topics...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2800916

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2800948

Vue Inf 8,1 Build 49020 to import Poser 6 characters. Not much luck with 8,4. I just got 8.5 and am testing it out. Note: Mac

  OK- I see the mesh imported- now to see how she renders!

 I've installed the trial edition of Vue 8 Complete (on my existing 32bit machine) and noticed how it loses resources significantly faster after importing a Poser figure and a large vehicle mesh.

Vue 6 fell to 52% resources while Vue 8 went down to 14% and crashed on another attempt.

If it wasn't for losing all that nice vegetation ecosystem stuff, I'd be looking even harder at Cinema 4D !! :-(

I just imported a character morphed, textured, and posed, V4.2 in VueInf 8.5. Worked just fine

Quote - I'm checking if Poser 6 and Vue 8.x play nice.

As long as you have 64-bit, Poser 6 will work about the same in 8.1 and higher as it did in 8.0.  If not, exporting as OBJ from Poser 6 is the way to get figures into Vue 8 scenes and manually apply the two head and body textures.