Quote - Dumb question time. :)  Is there a special reason to export the object from Poser in Alyson2's case, as opposed to just using the .obj ?(normally in the geometries folder, but located in the character folder in Alyson's case)

well it depends:  if you were modeling clothing for a morphed character it would be a lot better to export the morphed OBJ and work on that.

for base morphs its best to work on the base object from the geom folder, however PML will allow you to export a custom T-pose better suited for morphing.

as an aside, im not sure this is common knowledge but you can extract/create compressed OBJ files (OBZs) by just renaming the extension to/from .zip. its a lot less painless to use winzip, winrar, etc than using Poser's built in compresser - with which ive gotten some strange results from time to time. once it 'compressed' a 50 meg CR2 to 130 megs O_o