I have just done a quick test of Vue4 (version 4.02) with a Poser 4 PZ3 file, which uses the transmapped "AliceHair" as devised by Kozaburo. There is no problem with the import and the model goes in fine. However, instead of getting the lovely fine and delicate texturing seen in Poser, the hair looks more like a helmet over the eyes, and casts a shadow like a solid object. Has anyone a solution to the use of transmapped hair or other textures in Vue4? Thanks for any help.

Further to my previous message, I am attaching the same model and nearly same view, as generated from Poser 4. Note the level of detail in the hair, when compared with the result after import in Vue 4 (previous article). Hope there is an easy solution :) Lester

There is a quirk in the transparency between Poser and Vue. If, in Vue, transparency is set 0 min and 100 max, Vue takes the 0 and 100 and averages it to 50%. So what you've got on the hair is a 50% setting instead of a 100%. Open the Material Summary (icon near the middle of the screen at top) and move to the hair material. Open the material, go to the Transparency tab and move the slider up to 100%. The hair should have the right appearance after that. Looks like you also might need to do this for the eyelashes, too. That will show up more clearly once the hair has been corrected. :)

Yeah, Varian's right (of course!). This gets asked alot, really. I don't think it's really a quirk in Vue, but rather Vue is doing it "correctly". I never have understood the need for "transparency minimum" and "transparency maximum" settings in Poser. If you don't want to go to the trouble of changing the transparency to 100% for each of the hair parts in Vue, you can always do it in Poser before you save the scene as a PZ3 file. Just make sure the trans max and trans min skiders for each hair part are both set to 100%, and Vue will fix it for you on import.

Thanks Varian and MikeJ for the information. Everything works fine now. I tested both methods, changing the transparency for min and max to 100% in Poser before saving to a new PZ3 file, and also by setting the material properties in Vue4. Both methods give the same results, and it may be slightly easier to do the changes in Vue4 as this is where the final composition is going to be. Thanks again! Now I need to think about a composition..... !

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Sheesh...where I wrote, "If, in Vue, transparency is set 0 min and 100 max,", it's of course supposed to say "If, in POSER, transparency is set 0 min and 100 max," Glad you understood it anyway. :)

hmph. of course varian and mike look so smart, cuz i told them all this in the first place ;) you did post my poser to vue information rundown to the faq, didn't you guys?

Naturally, I have to credit Bloodsong with the origin of this information because he's the observant one who first deciphered the problem. Oh look, Twin, we must've cross-posted at the same time. My, my, how did that happen? ;> p.s. Links to great posts are currently being collected and arranged, so yes, it's in there!

Just to say ... I'm happy and many thanks to Varian and others who are very smart in Poser to Vue. I'm always learning some thing new. Here again. Thanks ! Guitta

heyas; oh yeah, varian, cross-posted. i can read the time stamp, you know. ;)

Yeah, it ALL, always, somehow or other, goes back to bloodsong. SHEEESSSHHHHHH! Some other things bloodsong has pointed out for our collective knowledge: 1) Vue hates bloodsong. ;) 2) bloodsong doesn't care what Vue thinks and is more than willing to do battle, at any time. ;) 3) Alot of stuff about procedural materials, too numerous to recall. 4) Mike's a goof. ;) 5) can't render to disk sometimes. 6) A few things here and there about reflections, and, definitely, about transparencies.... 7) LOTS of other scattered tidbits of info... 8) bloodsong most definitely knows Vue as well as any of us. :) Amazingly enough, bloodsong rarely takes the obvious opportunity to plug Dragon Factory bloodsong funny sometime. :)

huh? oh, im sorry... yeah, she would look 1000 times better riding a dragon factory dragon! vue does NOT hate me. we just get into arguments sometimes. usually about what materials go on things... um, and what file names should be named. and what extension they should have. and where my vue scenes are kept.... and whether or not i'm trying to render to screen too big than i'm allowed.... whether the little preview scene thingy should be updating NOW or sitting and waiting patiently while i'm doing stuff... but, other than that, we almost get along great :) anyway, i dont like advertising that gets in your face and jumps up and screams at you every time somebody mentions something even remotely related. so... i dont do it. its the job of my drooling fans to do that ;)

tha fan part is all right but the drooling bit ... 8 )

::handing out towels to all applicants:: ;)