another good question neyjour! I get confused, is a shader a texture? For example, if I save as an obj file, put that into UVmap, what do file do i need from Carrara to reconstruct the 3d? i need the .jpg right? and if it's embedded in the cbr file, you have to have Carrara to get to it. So I think Door #2 above would be the better option if using Carrara to create opjects to be textured in other programs on other PCs without a Carrara install. Or am I totally loosing it? thx.