sir dean: i use detatch polygons so i can keep track of what poly's have been named and what group they are in. you CAN leave them all attatched (i recommend this if you are getting weird seams when exporting to poser), select each pieces and do selection:name polygons. (you can't name a 'polymesh' unless it is detatched from the rest of the mesh.) now, the trick here is... you can't select your polys, name them, and then turn them invisible and grab the next group, because you will miss some. the same points that make up the top edge of one group make up the bottom edge of the other group, so you have to overlap your selections. which is sometimes hard (especially in complex models) because you can't really see what you're doing. there is no way to tell ray dream to select all the polygons of a certain name. (you can save the selection, though.) anyway, that only pertains to ray dream. dunno how it works in carrera, and i certainly don't know anything about it in other progs. :) also, text editing the obj for groups and materials is fine, too. :) but you would want to search for "!" in my case, and make it-- g head usemtl skin do NOT leave the !'s in the obj you want to import into poser. poser does not understand !'s; it'll flake out.