Hi all, I'm a Vue5 INF owner-waiting to upgrade to Vue6 INF. I've been put off by all the bugs-and broken Poser import. Do Poser SIX (6) and VUE6 play well together? IS the problem Poser 7 and Vue6??? I saw a post by Victoria Lee: quote]

Part of the issue is that e-Frontier changed the SDK for P7 and didn't share it with e-on before the release of Vue 6.  Part of the issue is that Vue 6 has a couple of huge memory leaks, we all know that.

Does this imply Poser6 and Vue6 work ok together? I DO see some fine renders out there. Thanks, Eric

I don't know about Poser 6 and Vue 6, Eric, because I use Poser 7 and Vue 6.  With the updates for both programs I don't have any issues importing from P7 to Vue 6 at all now.  The memory leaks have been pretty much plugged and I know from a couple of the e-on tech guys that e-Frontier and e-on are working together to make sure that the importing is seamless.

Hope this answers your questions.

Hi Victoria, Thanks! And that's good to read! Guess, I'll take the plunge and upgrade! Eric quote]I don't know about Poser 6 and Vue 6, Eric, because I use Poser 7 and Vue 6.  With the updates for both programs I don't have any issues importing from P7 to Vue 6 at all now.  The memory leaks have been pretty much plugged and I know from a couple of the e-on tech guys that e-Frontier and e-on are working together to make sure that the importing is seamless.

Hope this answers your questions.

I hate to disagree - memory leaks are still plentiful.  Resources plummit & cannot get them back & this is not just with poser items. It all depends on how complex your images are & what you are using,  I know for example 1 Xfrog Pine dropped me down to upper 60's.  Right now I'm working a pic & my resources are already at 56% and I have no poser items in it as of yet.

But yes they are still working on it  and trust they'll get it worked out.

I'm working on as scene now with three terrains, 2 infinite planes, a volumetric atmosphere set to Global Illumination and 2 poser figures and my resources are sitting at 85% so it might be a system configuration thing, dlk30341.

My system specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 Ghz processor
2 GB PC3200 DDR Ram
nVidia GeForce 4000 vid card w/128 Mb video ram
Windows SP Pro SP2

I'm not overclocked and the only new hardware I've added recently was a new heat sink when my last one failed.

I have to agree with dlk30341's disagreement. Although I only have minor problems under WinXP64, I still need to keep V6I and P7 running on my 32bit system (just to run SkinVue), and the 32bit setup is very limited.... 2, maybe 3, Poser figures and it's down (and that's in otherwise empty scenes). I also have confidence that it'll be worked out eventually... I remember V5I taking several months before it could handle large loads.

I dhave to disagree also because resourses have not ben fixed yet and memory leaks are still there.
 I loaded one pz3 last nite and resources went down to 22% and when I purged only got back to 38% and then moved the obj and back into the 20's with wrning I was going to crash.

 Also distrabution and material mapping is all messed up.   I have reported all these issues to tech and they are working on them now.

 If I can run Vue 5 inf on my system and not get the issues I am with Vue 6 final then something is still bad wrong.
  I ahve stayed out of threads with my comments but when people say there is no problems I have to say they are and can give links to tech support to back what I am saying.

The problems I have has nothing to do with operating system. It is all to do with bugs in Vue.

I have XP Pro & 4gigs of ram - Victoria  - your pics are very simple and I mean no offense by that whatsoever.  My pics are very complicated(as are a lot of peoples) - or should I say packed.  My last pic in the gallery is a prime example of the leaks.  I had mats jumping around willy nilly, I had to restart Vue & save often - last pic had 17 saves :blink:  That's just the start of issues.  And quite frankly too tired to list the rest and too tired to debate this issue.  Memory leaks are still there based on EON tech, that's all I need to know.

That's interesting, Victoria. My 32bit system isn't TOO different (but yes, different) from yours. Yet if I can get 2 Poser figures into a scene (otherwise empty) my resources drop to the 25-35% range.

The 32bit machine: Dual processor AMD MP2800 with 3.5 GB ram, NVidia Quadro FX1000 128MB. I've wondered in the past if Vue has never liked the Quadro cards, but haven't seen anyone else complain about them?

FYI - my VC is Nvidia 6800 Ultra 256k on board ram

I am using a Geforce fx 5200 nvidia card 256 k ram and have no problems at all with the card even though it is an older card. :)

It could also be that I'm using Vue 6 Esprit and not V6 Infinite.  I've read that there are a lot more problems with Inf than with Esprit.

Good to clarify that so Erick knows what the discussion is all about. :)
I am using Vue 6 Inf Final with latest update. :)

Where did you read that about different versions. Might be interesting to read. :)

Thanks for the feedback on the cards. The main reason I've wondered is due to all the weird display problems I've had in Vue(5 and 6) since switching to Quadro (no problems in other apps). Things like dialog boxes that pop back after closing... this happens to me a lot. The boxes aren't really there, I can't operate them. And clicking a new function clears it. Since this behavior occurs on both my machines, it makes me wonder what gives? Had the same problem in V5I on the 32bit system, until the later patches. Mostly it's just annoying, but couldn't help wondering if it was a clue to other problems. Guess not?

More problems with Inf than Esp? That would be an interesting read.

Another oddity I've run across - while rendering if using a spectral atmos - the render will NOT stop when I hit esc or any other combination thereof is the render is in the sky part.  What will happen - is it appears to stop - but if you mouseover any of the menus or right side it starts back up again.

Haven't heard about that one, dlk. Those spectrals are my new favorite, and they seem to render faster and better (well, for me) with each new build.

Maybe we should have a thread about the strange quirks we find, that no one else seems to run into? Stuff like my ghost dialogs and your hidden continuous spectral renders may be more common than we think. At the least, maybe we could figure out what common denominator causes the quirks? :-)

Attached Link: http://www.e-onsoftware.com/support/ShowMessage.php?id=1177200214

It works find in Vue 5 inf as its suppose to but not in vue 6 inf.

Hmmm, don't recall trying that routine in V6, iloco. And I wrote a couple tutorials on it for V5! I did open a V5I file like that in V6 that worked. I have noticed something different about V6 mapping, tho.

Looks like I don't have any work this coming week, so I'll have to spend some free time experimenting. Might be fun... might be fustrating. Either way, think maybe I'll start that thread I mentioned, instead of hijacking Eric's post.

Thanks. I was able to also open an old vue 5 file with the mapping and it worked in vueb 6.  I can not get it to work from scratch in vue 6 as in Vue 5.

 Will be Interesting to see what you find. :)

Hey iloco, guess by now you've seen that the last entry on your tech ticket solves your problem. That is, your file is working fine for me now, on both machines, so I assume it does for you, too?

Guess we can go back to wondering why Victoria's Vue esp is working so much better than our Vue inf. Especially since Eric is interested in upgrading to 6 Infinite.

You got it right DigReel.  I keep wonder why e-on changed the settings in vue 6 so they differ from vue 5 inf.  Would keep lot confusion down if both had been same.

 I keep wonder why Vue esp works better than Vue Inf also.  You would think Vue 6 being a higher end application it should be the show case for all other versions. :)