Hmm, this is good info.  Thanks.

Yeah, bringing Poser's pre-rigged figures into Maya actually would be a huge plus, as I'm not currently trying to master rigging myself, but generally am trying to work through scenes that are a bit intense for Poser's (apparent) memory capacity and awkward interface...

The texturing thing is also a set back, and it sounds like there would be about the same amount of selecting and reassigning so I'm not sure I (who am not any kind of MEL scripter) would get any benefit there.

Thanks again, replicand.  I appreciate you sharing the knowledge.

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