Vue d'Esprit has poser compatibility because Eon worked with Curious Labs to create it. Note that their import filter checks for the serial number of your Poser application and checks against an internal record whether it's valid or not. If not, it doesn't work. So, they didn't create that puppy on their own, they licensed it from Curious Labs. If you check a later thread, you'll find a quite short and upleasant comment from someone at Curious Labs having a bad hair day telling a Vue user that "they're on their own" in regards to Poser 5 imports. So it appears even more so, that this sort of filter is highly dependant on co-operation from Curious Labs. Vue 4 imports Poser 4 stuff. Vue 4 cannot import Poser 5 stuff, nor can Mover. Want to guess why?

Marque:

Curious Labs have promised they will do that. you can interpret that promise however you wish based on the evidence so far presented from that company. But they did promise. :)

There's just one problem that you guys are missing I think. I see lots of requests for Poser 4 compatibility. But Curious Labs have copyrighted the formats for Poser 4. They own the file types etc. Now, just for one moment imagine the world of hurt that Daz will find themselves in if they do make their app compatible with Poser 4. Curious Labs would have them in a court so fast their legs with burn off. Perhaps, just perhaps a conversion utility could be constructed to read the text from a poser 4 character and convert it to the new format - after all, Alias Wavefront own the obj format so CL can do dick about that. But, they can and WILL protect their own propietary formats and processes. Bet your bottom dollar they will. So, how's about you stop asking for things that will get Daz into a law suit, and think about alternatives? I know for one that I would hate to lose all the stuff I have for poser 4 - such as figures and clothing. In all honesty importing the models I care nothing about. I can set all that up myself. But the figures and the clothes. They're important to me, but not so much that I want to see these two companies in a court room hurling more mud at each other. Just a thought, take it how you want. :)

It's on the Off-Topic forum Lapis. I'll let you and others speculate on WHY it's in there. :)

This is a software forum. It's not the school playground Erm.... heheh... Naaaahhhhh. wanders off and tries to figure out which turn brought him back here... damn playground, too many corners. smirk

This is a software forum. It's not the school playground. ROTFLMAO Looks around.. scratches head snicker wanders off to find something that doesn't resemble a school playground. :)

It's all well and good demanding that DAZ come out with Poser 5 stuff, but they are extremely concerned over provisions in the EULA, as are a fair number of other content providers. So, they aren't going to go there anytime soon. I'm afraid that's something you're just going to have to accept until Curious Labs find a lawyer that can do something in less time. The discussion of this situation is one of the longest threads in Poser history over at Poser Pros (http://www.poserpros.com) Why don't Daz want to open the box? Read the thread there started by Jim Burton, you can't miss it, it's the general discussion forum and 67 pages long. Lots of reading, lots of ranting and a couple promises that are yet to be delivered. But some very concerned people in that thread, people who provide content, yet won't go near Poser 5. It's long, it'll take a while, but some of it is actually worth reading.

You're leaving messages on a part of Content Paradise. It's not a Curious Labs toy, nor an EGIsys toy, it's the marketplace here and perhaps a couple of other sites. CL take a profit cut from the stores that have opted in - which I believe comes out of their profit cut from the vendors. Not sure who else if anyone is involved - probably find RDNA in there as they provided content for Poser 5. Competitor for Daz? They've had that in spades for a couple years. Renderosity, 3DCommune and all the little places dotted around the net. This place has probably been the largest competitor. Why isn't Content Paradise running yet? Hrrm, better to ask Curious Labs and Renderosity. Probably server integration and software more than anything else. Curious Labs missed the boat with content provision. Missed it so dramatically they're probably still draining the harbour out of their clothes. Daz are used to competition in the field of content and they appear to have grown with it. The future should be interesting we'll see who manages to survive it - if anyone.

** don't know, I'd love to see teh message that was sent to CL ** Shouldn't matter what was sent. Civility is something that is essential in business regardless of what's said to you. In the UK, tech/customer support is allowed to hang up on an abusive customer, and in a store they are entitled to ask the customer to leave if they won't calm down. But, they have to do it politely - then call security. No matter how many four letter words are used, or how insulting something is you don't snap back. That privilege is only for "ordinary folks" not representatives of a company. :) Diplomats are not technical because diplomats are invariably politicians who could give a damn about technical stuff, all they want is money lining their pockets. Most technical people are too busy to be diplomats and rarely work help desks. Help desks are often populated by people who are either savvy with the software or capable of reading an automated help sheet - depending on company set-up. Nine times out of ten a "techie" answer will include RTFM... That's why techies don't play help-desk. :)

Maybe if these people were provided with buckets of ice to chill in and a hairbrush things would get better. :)

I'm always open to additions to my toolkit if anyone knows if I'm missing anything I need Circle, take a look at PestPatrol... it catches a few things that AdAware misses and it's not intrusive to the system. Just another tool for the toolkit. :) http://www.pestpatrol.com

Soulhuntre... And Curious Labs are in the being helpful and polite with no axe to grind? quote According to the CL Technical Support Manager (tech@curiouslabs.com) the following sums up their position: "The Poser import capability in Vue D'Esprit was created entirely by e-on with no cooperation, assistance or influence by Curious Labs. They are on their own with this and so are you. Go talk to them." *** Which is patently bullshit as the serial number checking had to have had assistance from Curious Labs alone, not to mention other program functions that need to be interpreted. Looks like more than one person was having a bad hair day.

Attached Link: Poser 5 beta test forum

There seems to be a problem with Poser 5 shader tree or the way it interprets tranparency, I'm not sure which. Check this thread started by Jelisa in the Poser 5 beta forum, and see if it's similar to yours. http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12440&Form.ShowMessage=915991 It's actually worth checking the beta forum for similar problems because they might even have the solution there or it could be there isn't a solution without a patch. Not saying "don't ask questions in here" that'd be daft, but take a look in there to see if there's anything like your problem and if not, come on in and see if one of those with a perfect copy can help you. :)

If you look inside the poser folder on your hard drive, you'll see a Poser.rsr. It's distinctly possible that file has become corrupt and is giving you the out of memory error. It can happen during data transfer from the cd, or from the install routine itself if the data is interrupted during install. It's also possible that the default settings for the interface are corrupt. Or it could be something else. One other thing that might be causing it is XP. I understand there's a "compatibility" value that can be changed on certain executables. Find the Poser.exe file, right click on it and see if there's a compatibility option. If there is, try setting that to Windows 2000 and try loading the program again. I seem to recall one person got it to work by doing that. I can't verify this as I don't have XP, but it might be worth a try. Other than that and the other suggestions here, you might need to contact Curious Labs tech support.

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