Lightwave doesn't export groups in it's object exporter. Bloodsong has a method that works pretty well. You need to create surfaces in modeler for each body, named as "bodypart_material" for instance, "head_skin" "head_teeth" etc. Then you can export the object, and use a text editor to split the Lightwave surfaces into groups and materials. Lightwave will export the surfaces as usemtl lines in the object file: usemtl head_skin Do a search and replace on usemtl and replace it with g g head_skin then do a search and replace on the underscore _ and replace it with a newline character and usemtl and a space (in textpad this would be n) "nusemtl " you end up with g head usemtl skin Sounds screwy, but it works. You need a fairly robust text editor that can search for formatting characters like newlines and such. Hope this made sense! Regards- Lemurtek