DAZ3D to Vue Plugin

kenmo

Anu thoughts on the possibliity of a plugin to export DAZ items to Vue, preferably in the Vue vob format and not OBJ or FBX?

I find Vue works better with large scenes than DA Studio and my work around is to export from DAZ in the obj format with textures. FBX does not always work for me on export or importing into Vue.

Also Iray materials and shaders often have issues in Vue. Hopefully a plugin could resolve this Iray materian when it is converted to a Vue vob.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Kenmo

 

Richard Haseltine

As far as I know .vob is an undocumented, proprietary format so there would be little chance of getting an exporter to wrotye them. And of course Vue is no longer being developed (there was a suggestion that it might be open-sourced, but that sounded as if it was looking for external backers even if it was real so I would not hold my breath).

kenmo

There was a Poser to Vue and Sketchup to Vue plugins when E-onsoftware was publishing Vue.

I can not remember if the Poser plugin was developed by E-onsoftware of Poser.

The Sketchup plugin (actually a script) was developed by a Vue fan/creator and sold on the old Cornucopia3D site.

There was a post on "Vue Galleries" on Facebook which seems to back your thought Vue may become "opensource" via Bentley (present owners of Vue).

Love Daz but lately it has been giving me issues with large scenes. I use Blender and Vue but I am more comfortable with Vue.

Plus I would have to purchase several Blender-addons to give me some of the features of Vue, especially plants and ecosystems. And Vue's material functions are so much easier than Blenders.

 

Richard Haseltine

As I recall the Poser-Vue transfer tool was developed jointly by both, and made some Poser features available in Vue. I recall its being extremely version-sensitive.

kenmo

That maybe. But if Poser can do it, why not DAZ? 

Richard Haseltine

kenmo said:

That maybe. But if Poser can do it, why not DAZ? 

Presumably the Vue developers chose to work only with Poser, and now of course there are no Vue developers.

kenmo

According to one of the persons at Bentley on the Facebook group "Vue galleries" Vue maybe released as opensource. It was posted about one week ago.

kenmo

Found the thread, Walther Beck of Bentley posting they are considering releasing Vue and Plant Factory as opensource.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/105492886172081/user/1205889614

I posted a screen capture of the post in case you are not on Facebook or a member of the "Vue Galleries" FB group.

Cheers

Kenmo