Quote - If the transfer utility must be used, can you confirm or deny the rumors that it fails to function properly without the CMS being installed and active?  ( I don't and won't have cms installed) You discuss transfering and fixing materials from DS.  If, in the case of clothing, I use Poser shaders instead of the included textures and, in the case of the figure, I choose to confine myself to the Gen4 uv's, is there any reason (once properly exported) that I can't simply apply my Poser materials from that generation as usual from my runtimes?

Transfer Utility does not require the CMS to be installed.

If you use shaders or Gen4 uv's then you don't need to convert DS material presets.