you might find that Craig's newest application on his site would be very helpful. Its called Babel, (windows only) it reads Poser PZ3 files and collects all your textures, including transparencies, to a directory. < Can you give a URL? I don't (at this time) use Carrara, but I've been researching alternative rendering systems for a while now. I'd like to look into this a little bit. bonni

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