Bagginsbill,

I know it is possible, I said in my post that it was just hard to do. It is easy to open Vue, add a terrain, an atmosphere, and you are ready to start animating dogfights. I have done scenes like this before in Poser, and I know Poser can do it, but it takes time to find the right hi-res pictures, etc.

It comes back to what I was saying earlier, that there is a lack of pre-made ready to render scenes into which you can just drop ships and planes into and animate. Each time you want to do it, you have to create the entire scene, find the images, etc. In Vue those scenes already exist in the provided sample scenes.

I am not saying Poser can't do it, I am saying that there is a lack of scenes like the one you show above.

It comes down to time. If I have to animate something, do I want to spend time modelling the thing I want to animate. No, I just buy it. So if I need to animate something in a scene, do I want to spend time creating the scene from scratch.

Like with the original start of this thread. I wanted to animate a submarine in Poser. In Vue this would consist of opening an underwater scene, putting the sub into it, and moving the sub. In Poser, as you have demonstrated, you have to create a shader for us, which you said yourself doesn't work properly without the lights, ground, water surface, light gel, etc.

I know that everything is possible in Poser. If it hasn't been done, someone will find a way to do it. But for the average user, he wants to do one thing, for example, animate a dogfight. That means he has to find a sky dome, find the pictures to map onto it, etc. If he knows he can do it in Vue without these hassles, which will he choose?

Helgard

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