I have made a mountain with a trail running around side of it to top. When I'm to create the animation path using the wizard I can't see the trail since the mountain only shows up as the grey big blob. I've tried different solution to get any kind of image in to Vue so I have something to go by, but no success.
How do you guys solve these kind of things?

grey big blob??? What do you mean exactly by grey big blob??

:o)

Here is the "blob" and the rendered mountain. Couldn't find another name for it.
Is there a way to see more details?

The rendered mountain...

Yes, disable OpenGL or select wireframe for the display:-)

A trick I havn't had to use in Vue that I used on my first animation project back when I did VR and 3D stuff for a living. The modeller we used didn't do animation, the animation package didn't show textures or a great deal of detail on objects until it produced a render. In the modeller we put in some bright red cubes as marker points along the path we wanted the animation to follow. Then in the animation package we plotted the animation by making the camera go from box to box. We did some low res test renders, put in more cubes and refined the path where there were problems and repeated the process till we were happy with it. Hopefully you wont need to resort to this kind of technique but it can help. Cheers Mark

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I figured I'd do some solution like that. :o) I'll do the wireframe also and see what I come up with. Since I made the trail first, by its own and then modelled the mountain around it it may be easier to use only the trail to start with. Well, I'll be back to share how it ended. Thank you for all suggestions.

I messed around a bit with the settings and all of a sudden I was able to see quite good details on my mountain! Can't figure out what I did... =o] but I'm happy it worked like that. Now it was no problem placing a trail on there.