I am pulling my hair out over this one guys, PLEASE help! I load NENE (from digital babes) into Poser4 with all of the relevant textures and transparencies, pose her and then save the scene as .PZ3 ready to load into Vue4. When I load the .PZ3 in Vue it says it can't find the textures but this isn't a problem as I point it in the right direction and away it seems to go. When I render the scene in Vue however it seems that none of the transparencies are working and that NENE's skin texture isn't how it looks when I render her in Poser. What am I doing wrong dudes? I really need to get her to look like she does in a Poser render because that is the whole reason I bought Vue in the first place! I apologise if this has been answered in the past but I'm a newbie to this board and really desperate for your help. Many thanx in advance. DaVeY

heyas; if it says it cant find the texture, and it's a gif... you need to change your gifs from interlaced to non-interlaced. vue can't read interlaced gifs. (which is annoying.) if you click on the 'archive' option for the messages, you'll see a little ways down the threads i just posted a note about pz3s and vue 4; that will have all the info you need. :) the skin may look wrong for a number of reasons. first, if it is a gif texture, it might not be loading at all (see above). if you placed the skin texture over a non-white object colour (ie a pale brown skin colour) in poser, the object colour influences the texture map's colour. don't worry, though, there's an option in the vue 4 materials to mix the texture with the underlying colour. use the material summary view to go through the materials and check them out. if you loaded bump maps (bums) on the figure, they will not work correctly in vue. you need to take the bump maps off. if you have greyscale versions of them, leave them on in poser, then replace the .bum file with your .gif or .tif version of it. if you dont have greyscale versions of them, you should set your poser file to not use bump maps at all.

Another note on bump maps, even if you are using .jpgs - I find that I need to reduce the scale of the bumps in Vue or I get a craggy - jagged figure.

WOW, thanks Bloodsong and Thorntoa, I'm gonna follow your direction and come back with a few masterpieces (hopefully!) Keep watching the Vue Gallery!

oh yeah! turn the bump 'gain' down to like .3 for 100% poser-sized bumps. you could probably fix it to do that automatically in your pz3, if you turn the bump down in poser to 3%. i havent tried it, though.