I don't disagree with Maclean as such, I just don't see why it should be "expected" for Studio to duplicate Poser. I'd be quite happy (if it ever works well) to never see another poser file for the rest of my 3D existence. If it imports the things and needs a few tweaks I can live with that. If a newbie can't, well, isn't that what the last 8 or so years of forums and mailing lists addressed? Helping newbies? Or did I blink and miss something. Yes there is a good chance that Daz will make things more compatible but I don't see it as a need that they should have to do it just to please people with a different software package. That'd be like expecting vue to support Bryce files just because they're both "landscaping" packages. Importing 3ds files into Poser does not offer the functionality of 3ds files, obviously CL haven't seen a problem with that, they went for the much larger obj files but Poser "imports" them. Apples and Pears I suppose. shrug and I really am going back to lurk this time. :)