7.5..... I tried Silverblades tutorial, but the render had a black background... think it may have been for an earlier version of Vue

Going to take a look at this later, I take it still applies in Vue 7.5?

p.s awsome tune ............Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face. I am a traveler of both time and space ....Kashmir, Led Zeppelin

lol sorry wrong forum, spend most of my time in the Vue one! But what I said previously about making larger images, then reducing them still stands for poser.

Hey **thd777 3d mouse is still going great just having a little trouble configuring for Vue, cannot use up or down when I pull in or out?! Only just discovered this, however it does seem to work on other windows apart from main view...eg side view. Not a big problem it is still a lot easier than it was before, but would be nice if I could use the up down also.

Do you use any particular settings?

Poser and Cinema 4d seem to work great with no adjustments needed.

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No probs Flyboy I had the same questions when I started using this method. If all my render settings worked all the time, I would probably render at 1200 x 900 but at higher render settings.

Currently  I am able to use default settings... however  tomorrow this probably will not be the case, so I am leaving computer on until it is finished! Does anyone else have the problem where they cannot animate above broadcast levels?  This appears to be random, one day it works, another it doesn't ! Normal atomsphere works, then it doesn't etc etc animated atmosphere with GI settings applied works, then never worked again! Uninstalled, reinstalled, patched.
Keeping user preferences to default helps,  (when these settings are changed it sometimes doesn't render even on broadcast). Thinking about buying Vue 8 but if it has these same issues I may as well stick with this. Some scenes I have created are totally unrenderable even if I remove everything from them and leave the basic ground and sky it will not even render on preview!

Does anyone else have these issues .... 7.5 extreme windows 7 ?

Well my last animation was all rendered at 1200 x I think 900 and then shrunk down to 720 x ??? default sony vegas render size. This was very noticeable going from 1000 x (sorry cannot remember these numbers) which looked far less quality.  I am now rendering all my frames at 2000 x ???? and they are a hell of a lot clearer than 1200 x which I was rendering before.  I have big problems with Vue and currently I am limited to only being able to use broadcast render settings, this changes daily some days it will let me render with default, ultra etc but most of the time will not so thats why I stick to broadcast (it always seems to render). Increasing the resolution and then shrinking it appears to give me more detail. Also using photoshop and applying guassion blurs or indeed various filter affects can make the image appear more detailed.

Thanks TD for your help, eventually I managed to get on the site downloaded the drivers and everything is working great it automatically installed drivers for Vue, Poser and C4D.

I only found out 3d mice existed the other week... I cannot belive how much easier everything has just got ... being able to control camera with left hand and model with the right, with far greater accuracy!

Loving being able to produce a sweeping camera move rather than what I was able to produce with the mouse.

Amazon had the Navigator on sale for £44 the other week and now it is £100 so I paid an extra £40 and got the space explorer (which I don't regret at all but would have been happy with Navigator).

This is by far the most helpfull thing I have bought to assist with 3d modeling/scene creation apart from my processor. I expect many of you do have one, but for those who don't this is an invaluable tool that I can't recommend enough.

Hello I got the Space Explorer, awesome bit of kit !! works straight away in cinema 4d , however unable to download drivers from website so used ones on disk.... cannot find any way to use it in vue... do I need to switch it on via a setting?

Thankyou very much, really looking forward to receiving it ;-)

Nice I am hoping it works well in Vue 7 too

Nice I am hoping it works well in Vue 7 too

I will second that great info it has given me a far greater understanding

Yes doing as still frames, I cannot imagine doing as an AVI! cannot make Manual settings work without significantly increasing render times even when Aquiring from Auto ;-(  and they do look exactly the same as on auto. Rendering it in Vue now and its looking fantastic, however the camera control is no where near as good as poser. I am going to update poser 8 again and see if it makes a difference.... Really liking this new poser lighting.

Thanks very much for the help I will look into this later, been using Vue to render poser scenes usually ....  cannot rember what all these settings do ! I am getting good results from the poser 8 renderer, so wanted to try and optimise on these. Will probably use a mixture of Vue 7 and poser rendering in the future.

So keeping that number lower is better for quicker render settings, so pumping it up to 2000 is not going to help! . I am already aquiring from Auto, if I keep settings exactly the same render still takes much longer but it does render. Poser pro had all these same issues, however I never even got to do a manual render (it always crashed before) .