hmm, I don't have any problems using 3ds files in Poser? But then I don't use Poser's importer for converting them... I use a nifty utility called 3dWin. http://www.tb-software.com/ yeah I agree in principle that a proprietary format would be better... I dont think they will be able to use LWO due to file format copyright issues. But I don't know how open a Studio format is going to be. All questions that will be answered down the road... they are rather important to me. You know what one of my Poser and Studio pet peeves are... that damned smoothing algorithm. Sometimes you want to turn it off ... lol. Carrara is so great for that... I can define in the vertex modeller if an edge is smooth or hard, I smooth the edges on organic models and I give hard edges to things like my gemstones.