OK. I need to use a poser guy in a Carrara animation. I converted the poser figure (just 'bizman' to keep it simple) to a dot obj file. I asked to keep the hierarchy intact and it worked. I confess I don't know how properly to get Carrara to see the textures exported with the dot obj file. Anyway, when this didn't work, I remembered Mark's recent advice re the UV texturing in Carrara 3. I'm sure there's tons of strings about how to do this but I haven't been following them. I began opening items of the bizman hierarchy and discovered that under the the 'layers List' shaders, sure enough, there were all the Poser file parts, with their proper names. I referred the ,er shirt I think, to the 'bizman.pict' texture map, took it into Photoshop and painted stripes on the tie. They rendered! Now it's gonna take some time to assign all those little domains for the clothes, but it looks like this will work. The skin textures seem to be rendering as if covered by a partially opaque white layer, but they're there, too. Yikes! deedub