There was a plugin that came with Poser Pro Pack that allowed you to host a .pz3 in 3DS Max. And a second one to host the scene in Lightwave. There still is such a plugin for P5 (don't know about P6). Reiss Body Studio. About $200 for the Max version of the plugin, the same price for the Lightwave plugin. And I believe there's also a Maya version, but I might be mistaken. A .max file is like a macro. A series of actions in 3DS Max performed on a base object. That's why you need 3DS Max to do something useful with a .max file, and that's why there are no importers/exporters for the .max format.

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