I am having an issue rendering a view scene embedded with a poser animation on my cows. My cows are working fine for rendering normal Vue scenes and Vue renders the poser animation fine on the internal render, but as soon as I try using the external renderer Vue crashes when it trys to send the scene to the cow. I’m guessing this is because the scene needs the poser file to get the information to render the scene and the cow has no poser reference.

Do I need to install Poser on each Cow? If so how does the Cow know where to find Poser?

If this isn’t the solution is there anyway I can take the vue scene and divorce it from needing poser?

I suppose the third option is to save the poser animation as an obj or DXF or Collada animation but when I do that I end up with a file for each frame and don’t know how to import all the frames into Vue, when I try it only imports the first frame.

Any help?

What version of Vue and Poser?

Vue 9 and Poser Pro 10

rendercows from the same build

Win7 12GB Ram

2 cows, one on the host machine (which has poser), tried with that cow alone and still crashes. Scene renders fine from Vue itself.

If that is Poser Pro 2010, then Vue 9 -should- be able to read it; if you mean PoserPro 2012, then Vue 9 is not compatible, for the most part. There are reports that it 2012 will work with Vue 9 by using the Poser 7 sdk, when you set things up; but all you will have is the P7 functions. P9/Pro2012 has core code changes, and only works well with Vue 10, which supports all the new functionality.

If it is 2010, there could be something in the Poser file that is causing the crashes. The most common culprits are dynamic cloth, dynamic  hair, and using the Poser shader tree. The easiest to check is simply unchecking the use poser shaders on the import options panel. Make sure that update dynamics is off; this can cause crashes in and of itself.

What I would do first thing is load the scene and just do a single frame final render in Vue. If that works with no glitches, switch to the external renderer, select rendercow there, and try one frame again. If that works, then the issue is somehow involved in the animation features; either its length or some interaction of features. Sometimes things get odd corruptions, and the only solution is to recreate the scene (save out the bvh, archive the old scene, then do the setup again, save, import the bvh, save again, and try again. That is a last resort, though.

Thanks. No dynamics or shader tree. It is poser 2010. I guess i will start by trying to import simple animations etc and build up until I find the issue.