After posting the above, I found the following on a Cinema4D plugin site http://www.c4d.de/downloads_40.php3 (the official one just opened at Maxon as well). This is the Altavista translation from the German post: Poser3 OBJ Loader V0.1 - Peter Georg Schmidt (eMail:pgs@bison soft.de) import filter with the Morhtargets for Poser 3 figures to be created know. PLEASE THE CONTAINED ONE LIESMICH.TXT FILE EXACT READING! I will do "an exact reading of the contained .txt file" this evening when I get home. whether this plugin simplifies the process or not, it looks like I will be buy Cinema4D! Troy