Re. importing .obj files - my point was that obj files ALWAYS end up as black silhouettes regardless of where they are sourced from - even from UVMapper. Having said that all my original meshes begin their life in Imagine. Can't afford stuff like Lightwave. This probably means that all meshes have double sided polygons. Imagine meshes when imported into other programs usually have lots of holes because the normals alternate direction from one polygon to the next. The only way to deal with this usually is to force them to be double sided. Any (old) Imagine users know of a fix?