Some people mention issues handling PoserPro(2010) files in Vue, like importing pz3-objects. Symptoms: poser cannot find obj or textures, and Vue asks for details and quits the import saying "cannot read pz3" or so.

I got the same, after installed all my content onto my new (Win7-64) machine, and installing Vue (9 Complete 64bit) and PoserPro as well. After two days or so, I got it working.

Solution:

when you have external Poser runtimes in folders apart from the default ones that come at install time, and you have NOT added those as extra libraries into the Poser library collection (yet), this issue will rise.

So, do add all your extra Poser runtimes into the Poser library collection, and from then on everything will run smooth. PoserPro itself, but also the Poser - Vue connection and other Poser-related tools like P3dO etc.

Just sharing, all the best.

Thanks for the info.

For the less intelligent among us, could you briefly describe the process of adding the extra runtimes in? 

(as they say, no good deed shall go unpunished... wink)

yeah sure

launch PoserPro and it opens the Library window. Or go menu: Window > Libraries. Or Shift+Ctrl+B. Whatever opens the Library.

Just above the item / lib contents listing, at the right, is a button looking like a folder, with a running man and a plus. At says: Add Library. Click it, then find (and select) the folder that contains the additional runtime you want to add. Then click OK.

Close the Library when you don't use it, it is reported to raise stability issues when you use programs that have "embedded flash" at the same time. Google Chrome is one of those.

Any doubts or questions? Just ask.

Thanks for you help/reply.

I just loaded PP2010 and was reading through it briefly and noted the ability to have extra runtime libs (I guess, like the old PoserPro 4 did) and I was thinking in general terms about how would be a good way to create/arrange them with the items I have. But I hadn't gotten to the point of doing it yet and it seemed like a good thing to know (adding them in) in case it wasn't obvious.

Thanks again. :-)

just some hints then

1. separate your Program Files from your Data, hence, do not install the runtimes which come with the package (aka Runtime and Downloads) in the folder that holds the executables. It's a security thing, Windows likes to prevent you writing into Program Files, and making user data backups becomes a challenge.
   I do have a separate Content folder which contains all my Poser, Vue, Bryce and whatever libraries, separate from my projects.

2. separate the content which comes with the package from the stuff you've obtained otherwise. That is: never ever add something to the Runtimes folder yourself, or install into there. Use Downloads or create a new one. The reason is that next time, when PoserPro 2012 or so comes along, you will like to replace all native PPro2010 content by PPro2012 content without losing your own stuff, and without having shiploads of duplicates around.

3. I created 4 runtime environments: Poser (the thing that comes with the package), Girlys (as Vicky comes with a massive wardrobe, but the other girls - and Vicky versions - can wear the stuff too), Beings (from Michael to Animals to anything else alive) and Scenes (anothing not alive, weapons, buildings, vehicles, etc).
   All these are folders which contain a Runtime folder, since the installers produce a lot outside the Runtime itself, like readme's and DazStudio files.
   The split into four helps me handling the volume: the folders currently contain 50Gb while another 200Gb is waiting to be installed into there.

P3dO helps me handling the stuff.