A few things here: mit123 - The answer is yes, I will tell all. You'll find it all writ out for you at phantast.comicbabecentral.com/tutorials.htm (Caution! Adult site! Well ... tame adult site, anyway ...) williamsheil - You interest me. I had heard it was binary AND encrypted but my source may not have been reliable. Is this information available? I have ideas for utilities I would like to make. A further point to note about Poser and export. A frequent complaint is that transparencies don't survive the Poser export - Bryce import. The main reason for this is that when Poser writes a .obj file it writes texture information in a .mtl file. However, it only writes a subset of mtl format, and leaves out the transparency information. I don't know why. It would be possible to write a utility that analysed a .pz3 file and then wrote a full .mtl file IF one could get hold of a full documentation of mtl format, which Lightwave Corporation keeps guarded. You will find partial guides to mtl format on the net, but these document only the bits that Poser writes, which makes one suspect that CL don't have the full mtl docs either.