Has anyone had this problem in Vue and know a workaround? I'm currently using Vue (not Pro) 4.2 upgrade in conjunction with Poser 5. I'm not sure if this has been happening since before I upgraded, but I know it's happened since the last upgrade.

I compose a scene in Poser 5 with a pair of Vicky (or Mike) models-- with full textures-- interacting. I save the scene as a PZ3 (or PZZ.. file format doesn't seem to matter) and then import it into Vue.

For some reason, I get both figures importing with the same texture. In the material list, I get one skinbody, one skinhead, one texture for lips, eyebrows, etc. And if I select by material, the same areas on both models highlight. Both hair models have their own individual textures, as do any clothes they're wearing, even if the clothing is the same. Just the people models have combined textures.

Natch, any touchups or texture work I do to one figure in Vue now affect both (I've done a few statuary pictures by using Vue's better stone materials, so this is particularly irritating if I don't want both characters to be made of inanimate material!)

For the time being, I've had to make do by exporting the individual figures as PZ3's, and then importing multiple scenes (and resizing, moving, etc, as needed) but that's a stopgap measure, at best. Does anyone know of a workaround for this? Should I open the PZ3 in a text editor and change the second characters' material zones to skinbody2 and the like?

Message edited on: 07/02/2004 00:05