The .max format is 3D Studio's scene format. As far as I know, the only way to get a MAX scene file into Poser is to load it in 3D Studio and save it as a .3ds file (Poser will import .3ds.) Alternately, you can use ProPack to import the Poser figures into 3D Studio Max (which sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. At least for me.) -nemo