Hi again, For anyone who might have noticed I put an image in the Bryce Gallery yesterday, I want to say I'm NOT defecting to "the other side" LOL! I had this export from Poser 4, which has alot of geometry in it (16.3 MB), and Vue simply refused to import it, crashing four times before I finally gave up and tried it in Bryce, which worked no problem. I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar problems with large exports? And, NO, nothing had the word, "fang" in it. ;) Cheers, Mike

Actually...I have difficulties with some large 3ds imports into Vue....in obj format they are 6MB+ in 3ds they r 2mb....but Vue refuses to import it...and more often than not..it begins the import and then crashes a third of the way in.... :( Very sad, because the model was very very nice. There is a brilliant 'free' aztech city model floating on the net..in dxf format (3109kb) .....and vue refuses point blank to read it or import...error msg is illegal operation....and refuses to continue from there....converted to OBJ format, file size is 6899kbs..just dont understand why it wont import it. sigh oh well, plenty of other models we can use I guess. Sacred

Sacred, I just tried to import my file again, and still it didn't work, so I rebooted and that seems to have done the trick. Go figure. My next step was to reinstall Vue, but I guess I won't be doing that now. I've not had any problems with 3Ds so far, except for the occasional error message that it's an "invalid format", but Vue has opened them anyway. I DO know though that there are many different versions of the DXF format, and Vue has a problem with some of them. Try converting your Aztec city model into 3ds or obj with another program, and see what happens. Sometimes that helps. Cheers, Mike