I project to update to Poser 5. Now, the question is if I will be able to work with it on my machine that's a AMD Athlon 1Giga 512 RAM Nvidia Riva TNT 2 64 80 Giga HD Win 98 Thanks for your answer:-)

no problemo my buddy!

Thanks:-)

Make sure when you do buy it you grab the updates as well if they haven't started including them on the cd.

Yes, I will. Thanks for the info. Seems to be a little buggy...

ever so slightly ;)

Make sure you keep your P4 install, Guitta. So long as you don't use any of the new goodies in P5, it will save your scene file as a PZ3, and you can import it into Vue.

Thanks Dale. Do you want to say I should install Poser 5 apart? (I think YES). The new goodies? I don't understand this one. Should I never try to import something (anything) from Poser 5 into Vue? I know that the new features in P 5 are not compatible with Vue 4, but the props? Thanks for some more details; :-)

The hair & dynamic cloth don't export well from poser5. All the figures are compatible with Poser4 though so you should be able to use them in vue.

You definitely want to keep your P4 installation, for several reasons. First being to keep Vue happy and accepting PZ3 files; it doesn't recognize the P5 executable. The next being that P5 allows you to link to runtimes external to that program, so you can link to your P4 library without having to reinstall -all- that content. Another trick to keep in mind is that this will allow you to create custom runtimes, such as one for all DAZ products, one for Rosity products, and so on. The new goodies are the dynamic hair, cloth, and material room. When you use those, the scene file gets appended with a .PZZ, which Vue doesn't accept. The hair is particle based, and it doesn't export to -anywhere- just yet. The dynamic cloth can be used, but only as a static object (posing your figure, getting the cloth exactly as you want it, saving the scene, turning -all- but the cloth invisible, exporting the deformed cloth as an .obj, then importing it either back into the scene and replacing the dynamic cloth or into Vue as a seperate prop). In the material room, if you go beyond simple mapping, you won't get a recognizable texture export. However. Like C!rcle said, the characters and static props are P4 compatible, and do export.

Thanks so much to all:-). Very interesting. But generally, Vue imports Pzz files, as you can see. Have you tried it?

vue accepts the compressed pz3 files but it doesn't recognise the extra materials room settings that poser5 saves & you can't import into vue if you uninstall poser4 as I found out after I'd done just that :(

No, no, I will not uninstall Poser 4:-) Thanks again. I will order P 5 soon now.