Thanks for the input, I will have to do a little more experimenting.

I wonder if you could expand on "growing the cloth"? So far the obj files have all previously been conforming clothes that I have exported as obj and then re-imported. This has resulted in imported obj props that have needed to be resized and repositoned to V4, and then clothified.

If I understand what you are proposing is to set the start pose for the animation and conform the clothing and then export? rather than the traditional exporting at the zero pose?

thanks again for the replies.