Hello all. This is my first time posting here and forgive me if I ask a really ignorant question. I have some models I've made in Poser 4 and I do have the ProPack. First, I can't get the poser files to import into Bryce, Carrara or TrueSpace. I tried saving them as TIF/TIFF's and that worked, but it comes with the background. I opened the files in PhotoShop in order to erase the background and that's still not working. How do I 1.) loose the background in either poser or another app? 2.)Can Poser files be imported into any of the three apps mentioned above? If it's far easier to point me to a site that has this info, please feel free to do so. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to answer my questions.

I believe to import the figures into another application... you'd pose then export the figures themselves? either as obj or 3ds as these tend to maintain the mapping. I'm certain someone that uses both Bryce and Poser will give you a bettre answer.. Cheers

Have you tried exporting as a Wavefront OBJ file? I think Bryce and TrueSpace can import OBJ, and I know Carrara can (I'm a Carrara user myself). Try this: Load a figure in Poser, and then do: File--> Export --> Wavefront OBJ, and see if that gets you on the right track. --Terri

Wizzard, I think we must be reading the same posts at the same time! Now cut that out!

Thanks very much for the help. I will give that a try.

Elektra - as an analogy, Poser figures are like sculptures. Those are the ones you export as OBJ (or 3DS, or whatever). They can be brought into other "sculpting workshops", or 3D apps, and be used as parts of scenes to be rendered. Rendering is like taking a photograph of the "sculptures" and other elements in a scene. Those are the ones you export as BMP, TIFF, JPG etc. When you do animation, you "film" a "moving scene", and export/save as MOV, AVI or other moving pic format.

Okay, great! I understand those analogies. I went into Poser and just did a very basic figure and tried to export it as either an OJB or 3DS. It asked me how many frames? I'm off to look this info up in either the help or manual. I had single frame chosen not multiple, but it asked how many to how many and the defaults were 1 to 30. Soooo, I'm plugging away at this. Thanks again to everyone.

Unless you've animated the model and have a program that can imprort multi-frame .obj's, you most likely want to export as a single frame object.

Thanks again to all of your for your help. I exported as an OBJ file and it's working much better now......