Via Daz, I am using the Collada Export (not Daz Collada) and I get real close.  I typically use DS, but last night I tried export from Daz to OBJ, import to Poser 7 and save as scene (pz3) to import into Vue (yea, I know, right)...and it had problems.

Some of the textures are a little "not right".  See the problems on the Fighting Fae Armor, some of the textures are twisted or something, see the white areas on 'em

Argh, stonewalled again... ;-)

"Unfortunately, at this time the technical details of Poser Debut have not yet been released. From what I understand it is based on the Poser 8 user interface, but I do not have further information regarding the content location or organization."

Actually most interested if you can make a scene (pz3) in PD (without the file location restrictions) and then open that scene in P7?  Am trying to get an answer to that here

So if you have Poser 7...would Poser Debut give you any key features that would be beneficial, other than a better interface?

For example, a combination of Poser 7/Debut covers a LOT of Poser 8...and would be more cost effective at $29 than a $129 upgrade.

I talked to Smith Micro support, and they said it would all be compatible. (though take it with a grain of salt, as their tech support had not even heard of this new Debut product...I had to direct him to his website, LOL)

Laurie.....one word....

Brilliant!!!

I moved the OBJ and MTL into the directory with the images, and Voila!  Even though the path was /MAPS/images...it still needed to be in same directory.

Some of them are not rendering yet  but they all look to be assigned (i.e. top has a color/texture, but the skin does not), but I've got a Pinewood Derby to worry about right now.

I'll be back!

Thanks Laurie!  That gets me understanding the kd/ks files (and there is a bump which is pretty self explanatory :)

The million dollar question then is there a way to import where it includes the material/texture information? 

In this OBJ, I have more than 71 meshes...multiplied by an average of 3 textures per, is a manual process of assigning over 200 images.  Hmmm...  :-O

I see after OBJ export, there is a MTL file there, and a MAPS folder with all the images in there...

@hamstergirl4444, I had the same exact problem.  Worked for a while on it, and found that I had to load Firefox into SafeMode and remove all user preferences.  I am not sure what set what, but something was preventing me from seeing the items and using the tabs.

Here is how: Reset Preferences in Firefox

Ditto this request!

nruddock thanks for the reply!  Not sure if what I did accomplishes the same thing or not?  If not, I'll give it a try!

I did read that exporting from poser makes some small mods that you don't get if you just grab the OBJ direct, so I typically avoid the export operation.  I think it was in some ZBrush related forum posts.

OK, I figured it out...

I did a AKEY in Edit Mode to get all of the vertices, and then a WKEY (remove doubles) and I had about 5000 of em...  LOL!

OK, interesting.  I imported the same OBJ, but did not click poly groups.  (so it had not vertex groups), and when I ran the smooth modifier it broke apart at the same place...intriguing!  Obviously its not related to the vertex groups, but maybe I did something in the process of creating the vertex groups to the mesh...?

I got the same results as mathman above.  It creates a new figure called the morph name, creates a new dial INJChannels->Community area, and creates a INJ in the pose area....

But none of that does anything.

Here are the settings I used, what about the no object selected at the bottom?  Is that right?

Not sure what the morph channel or the morph precision are getting me there...?

Yes I am!

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Looks like you can't use the deselect from the other group, unless you plan to go back and add some back.  The polygroup export just made a decision on this and made some assignments.

I am curious what other process anyone uses for grouping in Blender?

In case anyone later reads this, I found a solution. 

If you are working in Face Select Mode in Blender, instead of using "Deselect", you can "Select", and then use HKEY (or Mesh->Show/Hide Vertices->Hide Selected).  Though it is a Hide vertices command, if you are in Face mode, it will actually hide only the vertices that complete a face. 

For example, group the lShin, and then Select/Hide the group before grouping the lThigh

Woohoo!

(its probably what @RobynsVeil was talking about, but took me this long to get it ;-)

True, but you have to be careful though, even in face selection, if you use "deselect" (even in face mode) you will still deselect the vertices.  I saw this problem when using face selection, so switched to vertice selection.  It was not obvious, but I was getting the same result.

So in the sample above, if I selected the bottom 2 faces, it is equivalent to the example.  And when I deselect it does the same.