Since I started my 3d Studio Max course 3 months ago, I've had a growing desire to transform my PosetteV3 into a posable biped for future use in Max.  I thought at first of using Pomax, but when pomax imports Posette into Max, the joints between her hip-absomen-chest can clearly be seen (Pomax imports Judy, Jesse, and James without this problem, so its probably just that Posette was made in an era of low expectation, and her mesh reflects that attitude). 

I solved this probelm by exporting her from poser as a wavefront object, and checking the 'Weld Seams' in the export menu.  She now imports into max flawlessly, with her texture grouping intact (been having fun playing around with Max's materials options and various V3 textures).  My next challenge is to rig her with a biped skeleton.  The final, fully-rigged figure will be posted here to freestuff.
DPH
PS: Background photo was a gift from Drifterlee.

Hi Dp

Excellent!  Could you make an fbx format version as well?  

BTW  Posette makes a great deformation cage for creating V4 custom morphs too.

Check out the link.  http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials/animation/deform-cage/index.html  I'm sure there's a way to adapt this tutorial to 3dStudioMax.

Cheers

Pat

Well, I've finally got Posette bipeded now, and the Physique modifier applied, but there's obviously still work to be done in adjusting her envelope.  Any suggestions or comments will be most welcome. DPH

And here's another view.

And here's a view with the bones hidden. DPH

I hope you don't get in copyright trouble for redistributing posette's mesh.
I'm no expert in max biped rigging, but what I do know leads me to believe that it's impossible to distribute rig without the mesh.   

I hope I'm wrong, it would be neat to make rigs for various poser characters in Studio, and sell the rigs only, similar to the way CR2's can be separated from geometry.

I could always RTE encode the file to the P4NudeWom.obj, and redistribute it that way, just as my PosetteV3 is now available in Freestuff.  And, I wasn't actually thinking of selling this figure, but of making here a Freebie along side my others.  Afterall, Posette should be free and untrammeled for the whole world to enjoy.
DPH

Looks like you are doing great with 3DMax, Dave! Does anyone actually own Posette now that Poser 4 is obsolete or does the new company own all the old Poser apps, too?

Good Question
Who Does  own the rights to the Dork & Possette meshes?

 Is it just P4 Woman?  Good choice to practice CS Biped. 

I do it right in the opposite direction. Take a nice model of any 3D format and make it a Poser figure . As for me, poserizing is always a challenge for a character rigger http://cyreg.elementfx.com/

quote-Who Does  own the rights to the Dork & Possette meshes?- end quote

Check out the book,  " 3-D Human Modeling and Animation "  by Peter Ratner.  I don't know if he does or one of his students,  but P3 male and P3 female were definitely modeled in his style.

Attached Link: PosetteV3's First Steps in Max

You can see my first max animation with PosetteV3 here, at the above link.

Someone was a floating a Poser rigging import into Blender script but I never grabbed it. That might be worth looking into as a simpler option for Max. Happy New Year, Dave!

Lookin' good!  David