ren mem, robertzavala, the bones import seems to be excellent. THe Operation of the figure is superior to Poser in some ways. However fine Posing suffers a bit. Again this may just be my own learning curve in switching between Posere and Carrara. I'm still working on it. I still haven't caught on to the shader trick. Selecting the garment and "playing" with the various shader elements HAS NOT resulted in any change to the garment texture?!.. I can't even get the basic color to change... So, it's time to hit the manual and see if I can figure it out from there. Tomorrow I plan to sit down and try some serious modeling in the VR. I've been playing a round a lot just to try all the new toys. I have a couple of projects that I've had on the back burner and I'm going to try one of them in the beta. Won't kill me if it doesn't work but it'll givem me a chance to try out some things. mike