i will keep you posted. I am definitely getting Max9 within the week. I've been calling Reiss studio all day (no answer so far) to attempt to set my expectations.

I already DO NOT EXPECT to manipulate anything at all in Max when importing a poser scene by aid of body studio. I think that is unrealistic. The two worlds are just too foreign.

But if Body studio allows me to move a scene into max with figures, props, animation, dynamic hair, cloth and shaders intact and activated, and I can then light and render with Mental Ray.....hey, I'd be happy!

I think.

Meanwhile, there is no problem getting, say, V4 into Max and working with her. The method is described in many places. But that just means you moved a certain mesh, perhaps with textures properly mapped, into Max. You have to be "all Max" from there, including rigging, morph creation, etc. I accept that as a ground base. I think a case could be made that one would be better off with a mesh more "Max-favored" in the first place.

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