ok now the way to fix this problem- "the character has an all black material. Any ideas?" yup - run "fix bad geometery" it will correct the problem and the textures (which are there) will show up correctly. this problem shows up rarely, but is easy to fix. "Truespace has severe limitations compared to Poser and has problems dealing with groups and has many restrictions about them." erm No. incorrect. use "Decompose into Objects" to access a figures groups. I use trueSpace to poser to trueSpace all the time.. and I've NEVER run into what Kawecki is going on about.