Hi Phoul, I would also like to see your tuts. They are really nice and a lot can be learned. TIA, nick

Hey T- I downloaded it and yes it does work nicely. One question for you though. I did create an animation and was wondering how to assign this effect( like a gif animation)to the water surface of a pool. Lets say I have an architectural animation and I would like to use this caustic animation for the water surface in the pool. How would you go about it? Thanks in advance, Nick

I have the Vue and Mover 4.1 bundel. I still have not updated to 4.12. Is this 4.2 version for both Vue and the Mover or just for the Vue? I still do not own any of the Poser 4 or 5, So would that make any difference in my case other than Poser issues? Thanks in advance, Nick

I think this would be a great idea. I am all for it.

Thanks again. I found it. It was all the way to the right side. Nick

Which one of the 5 pages is this model on? I checked all of them and could not find the model. Very nice models though.great work. Thanks for sharing them. Nick

Very nice models. Which program did you use for these models? Nick

Thanks everyone for the inputs. Back to Vue again to delete few things. Thanks again, Nick

Thanks so much Sharen, I will try it. Nick

I have already done this few times, but never hurts to be careful. Can someone explains briefly and remind me please how to put the above mentioned object into the object folder after unzipping it? I know I can go back to the manual again, but a bit tired now. Thanks much, Nick

Thanks Tom, We'll do and see how it works. Regards, Nick

Hi Ace-Face, Thanks for your suggestions. There were two areas I could not quite get your meaning. The first, when you mentioned "unless I export with Layers & Materials rather than Objects &...". So if we export with Layers and Materials, we would get all our layer names in Vue? And if we do the same with Objects and material we only get numbers and we have to modify accordingly? The second is " The best thing to do is carefully attach simple materials to all the objects in the Modeling App..". By " Simple Materials" do you mean regular color material, like red or yellow or blue, or do you actually mean real materials as in textures? And then when in Vue, give your objects the real textures? Thanks for the info again, Nick

Hi Massimo, Nice to hear from another Allplan user. first of all where are you based if I may ask? I Initially imported the allplan model as a 3DS file in Vue without any textures assigned. Iwhen opened in Vue, I noticed a lot of numbers/materials/objects when looked at the world browser list. I only had about 12 or 13 drawing files and the default colors for Allplan does not exceed 30. But I noticed I had more than 100 material/object/numbers. I then imported the very same model with textures already assigned in Allplan. The result was the same thing. Again too too many material/objects/numbers. I would gladly email you both files if I can have your own email. There is a max. file size limit here. Also I would really appreciate it if you could email me a step by step exportation from Allplan to Vue as a 3DS with any options that i might need to check in Allplan. Looking forward to your response and thanks so much. Regards, Nick

Hi MP, <> Do you mean unzipping the file you have attached? Also another general question: When should I use the "mapped picture" and when the " Procedural colors"? In other words what should i want to achieve by choosing one over the other. I know my own answer, but just want to make sure that I am on the right track. Also you say <>. isn't this "material" and the "picture" the same thing? Or are they two different files? You might have guessed that I have not unzipped your attached file yet. Thanks again for your help and patiently waiting for the response. Reagrds, Nick