Forum: Vue


Subject: Reloading Poser files in V5i - problems

Phantast opened this issue on May 07, 2005 ยท 9 posts


Phantast posted Sat, 07 May 2005 at 8:55 AM

One of the things that sold V5i to me was the ability to reload a Poser figure while keeping the Vue texturing. I've now tried this out and there seem to be two problems with it, one of them serious. Problem 1: I load a Poser figure, modify the materials, then change the pose in Poser and save again. Vue picks up that the figure has changed and offers to reload it. However, for EVERY material that I have changed, up comes a dialog box asking whether I want to keep the modified material. Since there may well be 10-15 modified materials, this gets old quickly. Surely there must be a way to set it that the materials set in Vue are never to be overwritten by the original Poser ones and the import is to be seamless? Problem 2: I load a Poser figure and modify the materials. I want one complex material to be used by several of the material zones. Of course, as usual Vue destroys a material zone every time I copy and paste a material. Now what happens when I reload the Poser figure is that without asking, Vue resets all the original material zones and materials, and all my retexturing work is gone. The only way I can find round this is never to use copy and paste for materials and regenerate the material I want afresh for every material zone, but this is stupidly tedious. Is there a better solution?