I just bought Vue 7 Complete and I am trying to import Poser figures into Vue.  It unfortunately can't seem to find any of the figures geometries or files.  I set the Vue import for Poser to the Poser 8 exe.  Poser 8 stores figures in a different directory and I store my content libraries in my documents.  When I navigate to the geometry files for the figure it tries to load the figures and fails.

I thought collada imports might be a good alternative to this problem.  I created a collada export in Poser and it brings in the figure, but the scale is so small that I can hardly find the figure.  Does anyone have good settings to make this work?  The figures seem to look okay.  I've never had this problem in previous Vue versions.

I can't find the Vue manual pdf?  Where is this located?

I used to have bad experiences with content stored anywhere else than the default runtime location. I moved everything to the same default folder and it works better. However, I must say that I neither have Complete nor Poser 8 (I'm with 7.5 Infinite and Poser 7).

As to scale, you can set that at import, in the import dialog box (tick "resize object", and then "manual resizing"). Just determine once what's the right ratio (by measuring the figure in Vue and comparing to what you want to have) and use it all the time.

I forgot to answer to the Vue manual question. I just press F1, it's the easiest way to access the manual, especially because it's context sensitive, meaning that it will open the manual already in the section appropriate for whatever you're currently doing. If you're editing a material and press F1, it will open in the material section of the manual, for example. The location of the manual is not really important and, to be honest, I never even tried to find it. :-)

Vue Infinite 7.51 stores it at C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7.5 InfiniteDocumentation on a WinXP system.  You need Acrobot Reader 8 or higher to open the PDF.  If it's not there, e-on can email you a link to download it.

Daz Studio Advanced actually brought the figure in to  Vue full sized using collada export, but the morphs were messed up and the figure was deformed.  They have a 2nd export option collada Daz, I'll have to try that and see if it maintain figure morphs. 

The Poser collada export brought the figure in as it should be morph wise, but it was so small I could barely find it and when I tried to manually scale it Vue balked at it.

I believe I found a work around for the Poser import problem.  I created a dummy Poser.exe file and placed that in the library I was importing from and it found things better.  But if I had the figure in one library and content in another it couldn't find everything.  So it looks like if I import everything from the same runtime with Vue pointing to that folder it works better. 

I would like to get the collada import thing working better though; it has less isssues with finding stuff.

I would have upgraded to Vue 7 Infinite, but I couldn't afford the high upgrade price.  I think it stinks that in order to afford it I could only go to Vue 7 Complete--I paid so much for Infinite, I think it's unfair that the upgrade price was so steep.

Quote - "*So it looks like if I import everything from the same runtime with Vue pointing to that folder it works better. *"

That's what I said before. Only one runtime was the best option for me. This topic has been discussed many times in this forum and several people reported to have multiple runtimes without problems. However, several others have problems. Why some do and others don't, it's a mystery...

I didn't have any problems with it in the past under XP, it was rare that Vue didn't find something.  Now I'm under Vista (soon to be Win 7) and things are different.  My problem more has been not having enough system resources to work effectively with Poser Figures in Vue.

I've used Vista 64bit Ultimate until a week ago, now upgraded it directly to Windows 7.
I had Vue 7 Infinite and now Vue 7.5 Infinite and used it with Poser 7 over the last year or so. No problems using both together with Windows Vista. Meaning, i don't really believe, that Vista is the cause of this ...

Now since about a month or more i have Poser 8 and setting up the path to it's EXE in Vue, i have the problem with figures and the needed parts/components can't be found, too, within Vue.

The problem i believe is the not yet included compatibility to new Poser 8. It can't be selected in the Options screen while setting up the Poser import. In Vue 7.5  i can only select Poser 7 or Poser Pro, but not Poser 8 yet. Sure you can select Poser 7or Poser Pro and still set the path to the Poser 8 EXE, but that didn't do the trick for me.

To get it working most of times i did the following:  since i still got Poser 7 installed and have Poser 8 new , i set up the Poser import to Poser 7 and pointing the path to the poser.exe from Poser 7.
Now i work and set up my figures in Poser 8 (i like the new look and handling and especially the new library search function ...) and save them. I use several runtime path - like a runtime folder in Poser 6 folder, runtime folder in Poser 7 and a separate one outside the main Poser folders. It's working most of times - just sometimes Poser askes for the path to a certain texture or geometry or whatever needed, but most of the times it's working.

i've seen on newest screenshots of Vue 8 pre-users that Poser 8 is finally listed in Vue options and the direct connection to poser.exe of Poser 8 must be better supported - can't confirm this, yet, until i get my Vue 8 upgrade first week of November.

It may be that Vue uses the Poser library .xml file to locate contents and this (as well as the content itself) and in Poser 8 it is no longer kept in the main applications folder.  I had a problem with another Poser add on because of this. I'm tempted to reinstall Poser 7 just for better compatibility.