Phew !! Have just binge-read this thread, and my head hurts. Apologies, there's a **lot **I didn't understand, but much I can relate to...

I've tried to model & rig a few simple figures, got no-where. Is there potential for importing un-encrypted MMD figures, complete with rigging ??

Some back-ground: Long, long ago, I began by using a neat floor-plan program with a bundled semi-pro 3D-CAD to visualise a caravanserai's complex interior. Did well. Bought, found and/or 'Rolled my own' Medieval-ish props, transferred them as eg 3DS. But, program & Win'OS & RAM limits meant figures etc had to be 'low polygon' props.

Saw Poser 3 free on a cover-disk. Loved it. Bought P4, did well. Built a full-on CAD-Tower. Ran Poser alongside FP & CAD, shared props etc. Eventually upgraded Poser to P7.

Before I could install that, my PCs, library and archive drives were trashed by the cascading failure of a bad batch of budget HDDs. I salvaged a lot of stuff from 'installed' and 'slide-mounts' but, weep...

It was a decade before I could again afford hi-end hardware & software. I knew I needed x64 programs, oodles of RAM, many AMD CPU cores, 3 ½ wide-screens and twin GPU cards to drive them. And, yes, WD 'Black' HDDs...

Needless to say, P11Pro's complexity came as a shock. Many months on, I'm still fumbling with basic navigation. I keep trying to do straight-forward stuff, but everything always seems to need two, three or four extra steps from what I'd expect. There may be hot-key short-cuts, but I cannot remember any such beyond copy/paste.

Still, I'm off the floor, onto the Poser 'training wall'. I really, really like the 'external runtime library' facility, given my half-terabyte of 'legacy' and 'recent' freebies, plus much, much bought stuff. Being able to load and un-load such without trashing the core run-time is good.

The speed, though: Stuff that would take P4 a real-leisurely coffee-break to render takes but twelve (12) seconds in P11 Firefly, half a minute (33 secs) in Superfly via the two GPU cards...

Now to business: I've not met any of the arcane bugs & quirks mentioned earlier in this thread, but I don't yet use Poser at that level.

As I want to shuffle stuff between Poser, 3D-CAD and a new, budget 'house plan' program for both fun and that now-redesigned caravanserai, I'm more interested by import / export facilities and limits. My desktop includes handy shortcuts to IrfanView for flat stuff, 3D Object Converter, GeomStrip, PZ3 Editor, FBX Converter, dsf Tools and, yes, PMX Editor, the half-translated one.

I've learned what formats may be readily gleaned, what can't. eg Old LWO meshes can be converted, their recent format is proprietary. Unity packages are full of twisty little passages and directories, all apparently alike unto many levels down...

Happens there's a lot of fun, lo-ish-poly freebie props in the MMD community. And, un-encrypted PMD/PMX meshes, mirrored and exported to OBJ/MTL by the PMX Editor, generally import well to Poser.

Figures, of course, 'lose their bones' and come across as static props. Handy for back-ground, but such a waste of rigging...

So, I must wonder, is there potential for importing such un-encrypted MMD figures, complete with rigging ??

;-)