I just downloaded the freeware Vue 2023 program as well as the extra files to my Mac. I'm confused as where to put those extra files; do I put them in the application folder, or in the e-on software folder inside the "Shared" folder?

Also, could any of you experienced Vue/Poser users post a step-by-step on importing Poser figures/scenes into Vue? It's been sooooo long ago since I did that last, and I imagine the procedure has changed since then; I think I was using Vue 4 or 6 Infinite at the time. Thanks for taking the time to explain! 

LOL! I came in here to ask the same thing!! I guess we wait.  

I don't know about Mac, but in Windows the Vue content goes into the Vue folder inside the "e-on software" folder in the Documents folder.

For the Plant catalog, just run the installer in each zip and it will put everything in the right place.

You can put them anywhere you want as long as you point Vue to the folder via Options > Import > Content Folders

I have both my installation and content on my F Drive as my C drive is miniscule. 

I also have some old Vue files on an external hard drive.  These can be accessed via the open dialogue box  - click on the plus sign (arrowed) to point to any new content folders

Pointing Vue to content folders via the Options dialogue

@Gillbrooks, that is very helpful -- thank you!

Does anybody know how to get access to the downloadable trees within plant catalog ?

Does anybody know how to get access to the downloadable trees within plant catalog ?

I still have those dreaded "_~~.tpf" encrypted files ...

I just caught an H5N1 influenza, or something even worse. My aging brain is literally melting !

Honestly, I find this end of Vue, as a user since version 3, just sad. The subscription scheme seems a major culprit, from my point of view.

I stopped using Vue (v10) once they moved to subscription myself, I would have payed for updated/ improved versions but they had to get greedy.

Here's hoping the v2024 free version does not stagnate as the software has its uses.

So you stopped with VUE 15 years ago, which was 8 years before the subscription model was introduced. But yet, you feel entitled to imply that the software stagnated throught the 13 versions which were released since then. Of course, not having looked at the tools during all that time, you're the perfect one to judge.

And oh boy, we were all so greedy. I prefer perpetual too, but subscription does not automatically equal greed. VUE xStream and PlantFactory Producer as the highest version cost 4000$ as perpetual licenses if you got both. The non-commercial subscription versions for private use with the full xStream and Producer feature set were priced at 200$ for a bundle of BOTH, which is 5% of the original perpetual price and 8$ per month for each product. But, oh we were so greedy.

And then PlantCatalog, with 250$ for more than 250 species in up to three different versions per species. That's less than 1$ per species which you could export and keep forever. And if you count the procedural shape presets built into each plant, with sometimes more than 200 preset shapes per species, that's  0,005$ per model. But oh, we were so greedy.

And to top it all off, we gave everything we created away for free now in our endless greed, because we never cared about the community and our users at all.

I hope you have fun with the free versions, and may you think about our endless greed whenever you use the products that we poured our heart and soul into and for which you had to pay the crazy amount of 0.0$ to now use them forever.

I've used Vue in the past, but never Plant Factory so I'm a complete newbie. I've downloaded all the extra PF stuff, but I want to be sure that i install it correctly. When I click the installer for one of the extras it wants to install it on the C drive with the PF program. Is that correct? I have my Vue content on my D drive. Can someone walk me through this, please?