In Poser 3, I could choose to export each figure as one group, or each jointed segment of each figure as a group. As is well known. I now have Poser 4, with the latest version of the patch. When I export a posed figure as an .OBJ, I get the above dialog box. The second line seems to say that each jointed segment can be output as a group, as in Poser 3 - but I can never make it happen! - It optionally welds the joints :: that is useful. - It does not triangularize the mesh :: that is useful. - It preserves the **usemtl**'s of the original :: that is useful. - But I can't get it to output each group of the geometry file as a group!, as Poser 3 could. What's going on? Will this be put right?

When you export to OBJ The Hierarchy Will pop up. Only check in which parts you want to export. The selections on the dialog above allow you to include the group names, body part names or figure names with the OBJ. -JH.

I know that. The hierarchy displayed with everything checked, so I left it like that. What I meant was that, in Poser 3 I can export to .OBJ with the faces for each body segment preceded by a g line, as was in the geometry line; but I can't in Poser 4.

Remove all the checks from the option boxes and see if you get one group from the export.

Whatever I do, the exported .OBJ figure is all one big g group. not one group per body segment. There seems to be a bug in Poser 4 here. Best forward this thread to Larry.

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Keeping the usemtl materials as materials in the exported .OBJ file is OK as far as it goes; but how can I do either of these?:- (1) Convert the materials into groups, so I can texture the materials separately in Bryce. (2) Tell Bryce to import the .OBJ file and keep the groups as groups and turn the materials into subgroups, so I can texture them separately. (In Bryce an object can be divided into hierarchies of groups and subgroups and subsubgroups etc.) - - - - - -

Otherwise, it would be useful to be able to export in Poser with a group per figure AND per material, each group being named figure_material, so that e.g. Figure 1's skin is a separate group from Figure 2's skin.