That's one of the products, where the rabbit is

No, all in place where they should be... exactly at this path -> Runtime:Libraries:!aerysoul:SheeKiira:sk_backhair.pz2 Perhaps I should do a fresh install...

@Kalypso: yes, I used the injection poses first. No reaction on the hair when applying a pose then. I'm on Win7pro with Bondware Poser 11pro and DAZ Studio 4.12. The funny thing is, when I use the hair in DAZ Studio, I run also into problems but not as much as in Poser. I can load the hair, add the inj, and couldn't apply any poses with a double click from a preset BUT I can set the morphs via dial. In Poser I can't do anything. see screenshot. No names on the dials, no reaction on the dials (and yes I load the inj first for sure).

Thank you much for your answers, Dan & Karl.  Ther are some very useful advices I didn't know till now.

After some experiments I decided (against my former meaning) to switch over to WIN with my Bryce. A main point beside the bug thing was the better render times ( as my win pc is much faster than my mac mini).

Another point : I have to update to mountain lion for several reasons and so Bryce will be lost so  or so on Mac.

THX again  & kind regards,

Volker

Ahhh, yes. I missed this.  As I see in a picture from Martin he's in the same situation like I am. A "wild", swirly swarm is not the big problem, but a "ordered" swarm, as most fish swarms, become very difficult when the objects should face the same direction ... You have to imagine a sphere ...  at the equator all objects have to rotate around a point in the middle of the sphere and the objects are parallel to the sphere surface. But on any other point of the sphere the object should be upright (= no more parallel to the sphere surface), but also have to rotate around the y-axis of the sphere ... That was the plan, to built a "object ball" .

Perhaps this only possible with Vue 10 and the vector path option ...  :huh:

Thank you much, I'll have a look. Actually I'm on Vue9 Complete.

It's not a question of animating the things, it's the question of distributing the things in the right way.  The client want stills, not animations.  My thought was that the things are easyer to handle with Vue ecosystems as with high end 3D apps like Maya.  As I didn't work for a long time with particle systems (and they can be very very tricky in the setup) my first choice was Vue.

Hmm. seems that I have to make new arrangements ...  :mellow:

Thank you for your engagement.

Yes, indeed.

But I look especially for in depth tutorials for so called 3D ecosystems as my task is to simulate some swarm behaviour, like bee swarms or bird swarms. The tutorials from geekatplay.com are a good base, but unfortunately there is not enough time for trial and error to come behind the advanced secrets of Vue 3D ecosystems. When there is nothing on the market I have to decide the use of another software with a particle system (but that's more expensive and -/render/-time consuming than I want, so that is Plan D).

At AsileFX I found very good tutorial for populate "normal" things like hills, fields and so on, but there was no special topic about my special problem...

Thanks. I looked but the tuts only cover small parts of the things I'm after ...  so more advices are welcome.

Hi,

sorry. I've seen it today that the page doesn't showed right in IE but I havn't the time to fix it. I'll do it soon.

In IE you'll have to scroll down at the time :(.

Here is the link directly to the  >> ZIP file. <<

kind regards, Volker

Thank you for providing these informations and this link!

In case of hi-res models:  I only have a old machine ( single core 2 Mhz with 2 GB RAM) so it's very easy to bring VUE 8 to the knees

I hope that I soon can show what I've done ...

Thanks again!

Thank you too !  XFrog is on my HD, so that's not the problem itself - a xfrog tree  can't be randomized by VUE, it's always a static object. Mhm ....  perhaps I should try this for a low poly variant with randomizing in XFrog.

Thank you Gill !

That is what I do at the moment, but I'm not really happy with it ...   on the one side there is the huge polygon count which is not necessary for trees far away (which results in backdrops or alpha planes as workaround) on the other side it's not flexible enough (for me ). But as far as I see the plant editor in Infinite or xStream is the same as in Complete; so a update won't work for this.

Thank you.  Hmmmm, that's indeed really bad :-( .

FIXED LINK:
www.de-sign4u.com/_3D/smokingpipe.zip