I used MAKEOBJ to open the geometry file; I chose the menu Gropp, choose groupo from menu; I clicked one of the groups, which was a fingertip. I wrote the m odel to another fiule in "selected faces only" mode. Then I read and re-wrote the new file with MAKEOBJ to collect the garbage. That has worked OK infinity times. In MAKEOBJ, previously, "find the texture map areas" acted badly wrong for that model but for no otherts.. When I printed out the fingertip's .OBJ file as text, I looked at the f lines and saw easily that the (pointer numbers to the vt lines) were askew and wrong, e.g. corners shared by adjacent faces (= having the same vertex number) had different vt numbers far too often. I made this render using MAKEOBJ . The colors wewnt like that because I converted the result to 256-color mode so I could put it into GIF mode.