Curious Labs says that it is developing a plug-in for smooth import of Poser models into Carrara. Carrara 3 is to be released shortly, and there are deals on the older version, but I'm not sure if the new plug-in would be supported. Carrara is what Ray Dream has turned into and is incorporating more Ray Dreams old features that had been dropped into the next version. Carrara is a basic modeler and not as complex as Amapi, which I know a lot of folks in here favor. It also does particles and has excellent lighting for creating a new environment for you Poser figure to be rendered against. It also has a big library of pre-made 3D models, which can be used as props or customized. It is also much less expensive than Lightwave and the other studio 3D applications. There is also a "consumer level" entry version of Carrara called 3D Basics, and it is similar from what I can see to the old Raydream 3D. It has modeling tools and also a library of premade 3D objects. You can create texture maps in an decent 2d paint program and it probably isn't worth the extra money for "paint on" capabilities. There are lots of tutorials on how to do it and a reasonably inexpensive program called 3D Mapper Pro can be used to make the texture map templates or to preview the texture before export. If you hear about an old program called Painter 3D don't buy it--it has a lot of unresolved bugs. I looked high and low for a copy of it and was dissapointed when I finally managed to snag one.