I'm starting to concur that it's memory related. This is despite the fact that I have some 450 megs of RAM allotted to this program. Strangely enough, when e/d exporting objects from Bryce, the smaller items go through well enough, but anything bigger, such as a poser figure zaps the export process. It may not only be a question of polygon number, but also groups. At one time, I was anticipating using Bryce as a sort of translator, where Poser's colored polys might be exported out of Bryce as .lwo/.lws (Lightwave) and then brought into electricimage, but the terraformer couldn't handle the export. Thanks for the assists. manowar