What is the best way to find a wayward prop and automatically move it in front of the current camera? For instance, a prop or other item loads... and yet is nowhere to be seen. For some reason, it's miles away from the camera, or buried by a mountain.

One could spend several minutes in Top and then Side scene views, manually re-positioning the prop in front of the camera.

In iClone the solution is one-click easy, and in Poser one can use the more complicated 'SnapTo' Python script by Ockham. Is there something similar for Vue, or perhaps some overlooked feature of Vue that does this?

I fight with the same issue and as you say, it takes sometimes several minutes to positioning something. I use the alignment tool sometimes. Choose first the object close to target position and then the object to move. Not really satisfying I now. A better solution would be welcome.

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, the "Align" (Edit > Align > Alignment Tool) sort of gets roughly toward what's needed, but as you say... it isn't it.

I'm rather amazed that such a vital helper tool has never been added to Vue, as a Python script. But one will be released soon. The new script is working fine, but is being stress-tested at present.

Just for your information, when you apply "Align" to only one selected item, this item is centered in all views to the middle of the view. More or less exactly what you want to do. No Python script necessary, and no special trick.

"Centering" is useful to know about, but what if the object has loaded miles behind the current camera? I just tried it on such an object. No change whatsoever.

The script is out. I can't link it here, but searching Google (not DuckDuckGo or Bing) for "Magic Object Mover for Vue" should pick it up in about 24 hours.

Select any two objects, run the script. The second object moves to the location of the first, with a slight offset so it doesn't land right on top of a camera or inside a building.