UVMapper: bevore 3DS: 77 groups, 17 materials UVMapper: after 3DS: 1 group, 17 materials so it seems to boil down to all the bodyparts/groups beeing lost... sighs

@dodger: do I have to do anything special with 3DSMax? simple minded me imported hugo.obj (a scaled and UVMapped one), in the Popup-Dialog specifying hugo.mtl for materials, Multi and Group (whatever that does). Ok. lottsa lines in 3DSMax. scared me not touching anything. only do Export... ugh, another popup-dialog, me picking "textures" and "polygons" (whatever that does again)... Reading the exported .obj with UVMapper only finds 1 group... BTW. its 3DSMax 3.1. the Plugins 3.1b1 by Johnny Ow.. Please don't hit me for the simplicity of my approach, but before I throw myself into the depth of 3DSMax I tried to verify the procedure as a whole... Thanks for ya patience =)

Got Blender but it won't read .OBJ ... 3DSMax with OBJ2MAX and MAX2OBJ loses groups and materials ... To me its more and more unbelieveable that there's no easy, bodypart/group-and-material-save way to edit poser meshes...

what I'm trying to is the following: I save P5 Don (the male char) as a new character, lets call him Hugo, he is "in" hugo.cr2. Hugo is a Cyberpunk and supposed to have some body parts seriously modified, props wont do the trick. So I copied P5NudeMan.obj to Hugo.obj in the same directory as hugo.cr2 and altered the .cr2 to read its geometry from hugo.obj. Works perfectly. Then Hugo went for surgery (I tried to edit his mesh Hugo.obj with various progies), but sadly he didnt survive (the geometry, materials or body parts were broken)... I ended up loading P5NudeMan.obj into Poser and exporting it to Hugo.obj (and other formats) to make sure its not a problem of the original .obj...

Maybe I overlooked something, but I don't see anything in that .pz3 thats not on the Judy-character too... Definitely NO body shaping in there...