Poser to Vue - imported poser pz3 file.I didn't render too bad, but the highlights on the helment disappeared! What did I do? :O(

Are you sure you also had exactly these 2 lights also placed in Vue? Can you check the helmet material in vue? Normally you should be able to "open" the figure if it has a "+" in front of its name, when you click on that... Materials aside from Textures are not always 100% what they are in Poser when you import them, so check that...

Hmmmmmmm, one major problem with the glass material of the helmet in the Vue image is that it has no refraction index. Glass has a refraction index of between 1.5 to 1.8. The easiest way to rectify the problem you have is replace the Poser imported texture with a Vue glass material. Hope that helps, Cheers

Poser lights don't import to Vue

Cheers, can you tell me how to do that? I'm a total newbie. All help is appreicated.

Open the material summary (see above). Search for your helmet material and replace it (right-click-->Load a material) by a Vue glass material. You may try several glasses until you find the best one:-) Guitta

WOW! Look what I got. The more I work with the program, the more I'm amazed. Thanks everyone you really have been a great help. Without you guy/gals I would have proably given up on the program.

Looks great Phil, even better then in Poser:-)

I would turn down the reflection to about half what it's at. Looks almost like it's painted on to the glass. Gebe, Poser 5 can do glass good. Just got to play with it a bit. Haven't found anyway to match Vue's glow effect without extra props and setting up lights to cast light onto the surrounding surfaces. I did this picture to show someone quick that it's not had to get a glass effect in Poser 5. Its good for indoor scenes but will never match Vue for outdoor stuff.

I did not say that Poser doesnt good glass??? Where have you read that? Vue does much better glass anyhow.

No you didn't say Poser couldn't do good glass, you said Vue's is better. Poser 5 has every thing Vue has to create glass plus it has refraction (Mentioned by Cheers above) and it has translucence two key properties of glass. So with enough playing with it, you can get better glass then Vue can do. :) Of course you will still be looking at it under Poser's lights that are not as good as Vue's. :D