by importing a poser file (.pz3) today i got an error message saying this - and no way to click it away. Does anybody know what that is? And what that means?

Some additional things. First: Mac version. Second. It has to do with bump maps (.bum) from Poser. After importing into a "fresh" Vue file, i can click the error message away, but then Vue crashes. Somewhere deep in the back of my brain something says, that i have read about a problem with Vue Poser BUM files on a Mac. But i can't remember. Maybe someone else does remember.

I can't see any picture above, maybe it's me ;=(

I cannot see any image either???

Have no idea why i didn't show up - anyway. Here again, plus the second error message (lying in front). After that Vue crashes. It has to do with the bump maps in the Poser file - definetly. I only can't remember how to do the workaround. Except of deleting the bumps and redo them in Vue manually. BUT, if you have defined a bump once, you (in fact i) can't delete it anymore. Poser seems to keep the information that there was (and could be) a bump map and Vue reads that and decides to go down. What i will try now is, to import the files on the windows machine and then take the Vue file over to the Mac version. That should work, we will see. But thanks for your interest! Walther

In Poser menu RENDER-->MATERIAL select NONE for the bum. Save your scene under a new name. In your Poser folder, create a copy of your BUM file and rename it as a jpg. Then you can use it manually in Vue as a bump. Unpleasent, but it works:-) Guitta

merci bien Guitta. The first part worked. I think in Poser i forgot to click onto "apply texture to entire figure", so the bum (bum bum you're dead!) was still somewhere applied. The scond part didn't work. I renamed the (copy of the) bum file to jpg and tried to apply that manually. Same error messages and crash. Unpleasant but that's how life is - sometimes. Walther

Maybe you can load the bum(jpg) into your paint program, save it there as a new file and retry. As a bum(jpg) is the same as any other jpeg you may use in Vue, it should work (I want it to work!!!) Guitta

i want it to work too :-)) I tried that already - to load the bum file into Photoshop. No way! I tried now as well to import the pz3 file on the windows machine and to save the file there as a vob. Loading this file on my Mac, obviously Vue asks for the tif and bum file. When i guide Vue to these files and "point" to the bum file Vue crashes as well. bad luck and trouble! Walther

Walther, what I don't understand is, how Vue can ask for a bum file, if there was no bum file when you saved your pz3??? Maybe there is another bum for something else in your Poser scene that you forgot to "unable"? I remember when this (Vue could nort read bums on PC)problem existed in Vue 4.5 (?), I always disabled all the bum files and applied them manually in Vue (opened bumps tab-->edit function-->loaded the jpg).

Sorry - missunderstanding. In this case i tried to load (and save it as a vob object) the file on the PC with the bum file embedded. The second problem is, that i am unable (blame me probably) to save the Poser file without bump (i checked all (2) elements for bumps, disabled them., and when i recheck the elements the bumps are "happily" back again). To get rid of the bumps work in all other cases but not with this specific figure. I have to do the Poser file again "from scratch". I am testing another possibility as well and will let you know.

Well, finally found a workaround. Use Lemke's GraficConverter and convert the BUM files to jpgs. Then apply those in Poser to the figure. If you do this in Vue, you do have to go through a lot of individual elements which form a figure - that's a little boring. The import in Vue with these files is possible. The only question is, wether the conversion or the use of jpg bump maps does make a difference compared to the original bum files? Walther