Hi all,

I am trying to improt poser figures into a pre-made Vue scene in Vue 8. Whilst the figure imports fine - it is really slow when moving or re-sizing the figure!

Can anyone suggest what would be the best settings for vue while I am trying to add figure to the scene? My Pc should be able to cope alright as I have an AMD Duo 220 ghz processor with 4Gig of Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Graphics card.

I would like to get into Vue more as a hobby - but the constant slowness puts me off using it as much as I would like. Therefore any suggestions for a smoother running would be great.

I was also looking to go from PC to an Apple Desktop - and would be interested to know what anyone thought on this? It would be purely for using Poser/Vue, and is the upgrade from Vue 8 to Vue 9 be worth it?

Thanks all

Are you on 64 Bit or 32 Bit system?

I turn most of the viewport settings to display box with no shadows and turn off other refinements.  It can make it harder to do precision work but it can speed up getting the basic layout done.

I also put each poser model in its own layer and hide the layers when I don't need them.

I used to save each Poser model as a Vob in a blank scene and then reload it but I've not been doing that for awhile now.

Can't really comment on moving to Apple.

I'm really happy with Vue 9 but ultimately its a personal choice - are the new features worth the money for you?  I find the texture resampling a real help working with Poser imports - far too many Poser textures are really far bigger than they need to be unless you're doing close up work.

Thanks Mark - changing the settings to box really does help speed things up.

I think my settings in Vue are to high for my system to cope with as keep getting Vue not responding message!

Is there anyway of droping an object on the terrain in stand of to the ground - every time I import an object it seems to go below the terrain, even when I un-check the drop to ground option.

Thanks for your advise - really helpfull

John

Quote - Hi all,

I am trying to improt poser figures into a pre-made Vue scene in Vue 8. Whilst the figure imports fine - it is really slow when moving or re-sizing the figure!

Can anyone suggest what would be the best settings for vue while I am trying to add figure to the scene? My Pc should be able to cope alright as I have an AMD Duo 220 ghz processor with 4Gig of Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Graphics card.

I would like to get into Vue more as a hobby - but the constant slowness puts me off using it as much as I would like. Therefore any suggestions for a smoother running would be great.

I was also looking to go from PC to an Apple Desktop - and would be interested to know what anyone thought on this? It would be purely for using Poser/Vue, and is the upgrade from Vue 8 to Vue 9 be worth it?

Thanks all

 

I develop on both PC and Mac platforms so I can help you with anything you need. The first thing I should point out though is your system really is not that good for much detailed work or complex scenes. But, it all depends upon what you plan to do.

My 2008 Mac Pro with 10GB of RAM and an nVidia 8800GT graphics card is now part of my render farm. The main production PC I use is a custom built computer I did using most all the same parts from Maximum PC September 2010 issue. Now, unless you need all that power like me, that may be overkill for what you want. All I was pointing out is that your system really is on the low end though to do much.

Yes, Vue 9 is worth it on several levels, such as having a working Smith Micro SDK for Poser imports. I worked with e-on tech on this for a long time and their latest version appears to have fixed most of the problems I reported. You can find my discussion threads over at e-on for more on this in their "Matainence form" area.

A 64bit OS, great graphics and LOTS of RAM is a must. I develop on both Windows 7 64 and Snow Leopard, which is 64 bit too. Apple Leopard is suppossed to be full 64bit with no option for 32bit like now where you can boot into either one. Until Vue 9, it was REALLY bad on the Mac. Now, this is the first real full version they have done and it works fine for me but there are some problems with it you may not see on Windows 7. I expect it to get better though since this is really their first real Cocoa build.

For now, with what you have, try doing like the other posts say. Also, make sure your video ram setting in prefernces matches what your card can do. Make sure the other settings are set to low for preview and that should help too.

Good luck and happy rendering.

Poser hair can often kill the camera movement response in the Main preview window.