Cheers Bruno, I had to manually prune away Vue from my system in much the manner you already suggested. But, it seems it is the AppData data that is the key to a fresh install.

Now, it seems, I have what looks to be a fresh install. Thanks for the help guys.

LOL, well I have no intention of reinstalling Windows as a solution to Vue 9's inability to uninstall properly :D but, thanks for the suggestion.

I simply have far too many other concerns to use that method. Vue is only a small part of my current workflow, and even that is quickly reducing as its inability to be controlled increases.

I'm one of the guys waiting with baited breath for Vue 6 xStream, and I mean REALLY waiting on it, but I have the self-control to wait for an official gold release. I don't want to fork over a lot of cash to get a product I cannot expect to work straight away (as I will when I get the final release) so I'll make V5I do until then.

And if/when I do get V6x it'll be because I think the price is worth it :) if not - I'll simply get on with things. Making a big hoo-haa about throwing away such-and-such a CD is not too impressive IMO and doesn't make me want to explore this situation with such a person, if you're wondering why you're not getting the attention you think you deserve.

Quote - As far as I know, e-on have not said anything about releasing Vue 6 in October. They hope to start a pre-release in October. I believe that this will be nothing more than taking pre-orders. No actual release date has yet been set.

Pre-release might mean a scheme similar to how Newtek released LW, they let people who had already paid for it download the latest release candidate, so they could get to grips with it prior to the final release. Only minor bugs and optimisations would be the difference, all the GUI and general workflow would be finalised.

Quote - I saw this over in the Poser firum too.  What is an Icarus Camera?

Before PFTrack was called PFTrack it was called Icarus, and was a freeware camera tracker. It's still possible to find Icarus, and to get camera data from video to use in Lightwave or Maya & the other supported apps.

It's a little ropey, and needs a clean steady video shot, but it is possible to get results from it.

No, there's more differences, chiefly the ability to import/export, and of course the synch plugins. Check out the application specifications to be sure, but I'm pretty certain of it. The plugins should be somewhere on one of the disks you got if you've got them at all.

No, I'm talking about Vue Infinite/Pro, if you have the Esprit version then I'm afraid there are no plugins available for that. As far as I know, there's no way to get camera data into Esprit at all. :(

About getting Icarus data into Vue, you could export the Icarus data to either Maya or Lightwave format, then use Vues synch plugins to synch the data from either Maya or Lightwave.

Of course, this presupposes you have either Maya or Lightwave :)

If you don't try downloading the Lightwave free edition (demo), if you're lucky it might allow you to add the plugin and synch the camera data. I seem to remember being able to use plugins with the free edition many moons back.

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You need to clear, then repopulate for the new additions to show.

I don't think so. The only thing I can suggest is to render the animation very, very small at preview quality for testing.

I haven't used Max, but if it's anything like Lightwave you need to manually tell max what the animation length is. In Lightwave it defaults to 60 frames, it sounds like Max defaults to 100.

You'll need to save the camera tracking export as a Lightwave, Maya or 3DMax scene (or whatever 3D application you have) and then use one of the included Vue plugins to import from the 3D application. As far as I know none of the camera tracking software will save to Vue's native format unfortunately.