Dr. Zik, I've begun experimenting with Poser more seriously lately and just got the RDS--> Carrara Studio upgrade and started playing with that. Earlier today I exported a Vicki II figure with Figure clothing all texture mapped - all the maps came through fine, without trasparency. The immediate odd thing that I found was a similar problem to Bryce imports, which is problems with the eyes. They do not map properly initially in either program, but while I can solve the problem in Bryce I haven't been able to in Carrara. The REye and LEye objects seem to be made of subobjects (eyeball, iris, pupil, eyewhite - as per the Poser Material assignments) and these all automatically get their own shaders when imported. The eye, however, remains opaque no matter what I do... Still working on it, however. Initial test renders, with nothing done except importing and default render setting looked good, if not a little satin. I have not yet started playing with OBJ imports specifically... Tom D