Anytime you take a material into another program, you will probably have to adjust something. I export all my props and figures into Vue. I normally have to change highlight materials And bump maps. So using Poser items in Daz can present the same issues.

If I use photometric I have to change how I treat my daz characters which I bring in as OBJs. I always make changes, but now I have to redo how I do it. I won't use photometric because of that. It didn't seem to improve my landscapes noticably enough to warrant all the work. 

Glad to see you back. I am really sorry about your mother. I know what it is like to feel lousy and in pain most of the time. I hope this coming year is better for you.

I missed seeing your posts.

I'm having another issue. I posted on the maintenance forum in e-on but was wondering if others are experienceing a no response message when they try to move figures or such. I never had these problems. I have plenty of ram and am on win 7-64-bit.

Muptipass has been fixed if anyone else had that issue.

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this might be redundant to what you have done so far. But check your spam. Things go in mine that sshouldn't . Sometimes stuff from the same place with the same type headings gI in nd sometimes they don't. Eon has mentioned this audio.

Thank you all for all the testing and reporting. I put it on yesterday but haven't gotten to it yet. Just wanted you to know, I appreciate the input.

I plan on doing some comparisions soon.

I downloaded the extra yesterday evening and it did unzip. I have not installed anything yet.

Just got the e-mail and download link for Maintenance users. The e-mail listed these new features.

Here is a shortlist of some of the important new features included in Vue 2014:

• World Point Position (or XYZ) Pass: Vue 2014 adds a WPP pass to the extensive list of channels that Vue can generate for added compositing flexibility.
• Physically Accurate Sunlight Model and Photometric Lights: The new scientifically accurate photometric sunlight model uses a real-world, physical simulation of sun and atmospheric lighting intensities. You can now assign physically accurate values to all light properties, such as color temperature, light intensity (Lumens or Candelas) and IES Profiles.
• Tone Mapping: Vue 2014 lets you select different tone mapping filters to specify how raw HDR colors are transformed into the final picture. These filters typically simulate the response of the human eye or chemical photographic film.
• Natural Grain: This new mode produces natural color variations particularly well suited for terrains, ground, or any natural elements. Ideal for quick results, the Natural Grain option provides high level access to settings such as contrast, balance and roughness, directly from the Material Editor.
• EcoSystem improvements: EcoSystem Clumping replicates the natural phenomenon where plants grow close together rather than evenly distributed. Vue 2014 features highly optimized algorithms to accelerate the rendering of EcoSystems containing many small items, such as gravel or grass blades.
• Improved Plant Factory compatibility: Health, Seasonality or any other published plant parameters can be animated directly inside the Vue timeline. When using Plant Factory plants in EcoSystems, a new Quality setting is available in the Population list to define the amount of detail of the plant instances, thus saving memory and reducing render times.
• Interface improvements: The Vue 2014 Function Editor was redesigned for improved performance on modern computer displays. A new option is available that protects the render camera from any unwanted modifications and automatically switches to perspective view whenever the viewport is modified. Vue 2014 can position the sun exactly as it would be in real-life, based on time of day, date and location on Earth.
• Many other improvements such as Foldable EcoPainter, highly optimized flat Area Lights, names in Render Stack, improved material manipulation, and more...

I always export OBJs, mainly from DAZ Studio, busometime toss from Poser and I have never had issues other than doing minor reworking on some mats. Every render engine will render differently.

This is what I did. I, did get Gen2, but few clothes. Since Dawn is free and there are free clothes through sites such as ShareCG as well as on HiveWire3d, why not download her and pick up a few clothes and see how it works for you. You can do a minimal investment or actually none at all  if you are just curious.

Many vobs will not export.

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Otherwise I suggest followindado rums on daz on daz3d and here. If you read them regularly and bookmark posts that might help you in the future, you will find working a lot easier.

this is how I do it with all zip files. It doesn't matter what site they are from. I am on my iPad so I can't give screen captuUnzip right click on the zip file and unzip to the name of the file. You will see that option when you right click. You will now have a folder with the zip files name on it. Open my library folder. Copy the contents of the zip file into the my library folder. With generation 4or props it will probably be only runtimWhee sometimes you will be asked to merge the file. With genesis and some morphs , etc. you will have data, people, etc files. Just drag all of these to the library. If you are still struck, Wilmap has an instructional file on sharecg that explains how Yao open her zipped files which are consistent with others.

I have Photoshop open now and can't really get into Vue, but there is a setting on ecosystems to set the object below ground. If you can't find it, I'll do a screen capture.

Don't be afraid of the content folder. You really can't make a mistake. The runtimes are much more complicated. If you import Poser characters, you might run into bump issues. I have an ongoing tutorial about DAZ and Vue, but you can apply a lot to Poser. http://www.perpetualvisions.com/new-articles/notes-daz-poser-vue/notes-daz-poser-vue.html

Paula