Oh!  I have the pro version but didn't know there was a hand morph included!  Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion!  I searched the store for anything by Blackhearted - but couldn't find those hand morphs.  Help?

Posing LaFemme hands is a big problem for me.  They just look awful no matter what I do.  I have some hand poses like the "Give A Hand" package, but that isn't satisfactory either.  The hands always come out gnarled and weird.  How to deal with this?

I guess theoretically it shouldn't work -- and yet - Poser 11 DID open the file and let me move it around just fine. But I knew I couldn't use something that humongous for any complicated scenes. Amazing that it could handle it.

Well -- I've never messed with Shade or Blender. Haven't even used Poser in a long time. I'm a video guy - I work with Final Cut, Motion, Logic, etc. etc. I really didn't feel like learning yet another software program LOL

So -- the vendor crunched the model down to "only" two million polys. Still looks OK and loads much easier. Good enough for government work.

Gotta say -- I really can't imagine why the vendor made that model so big. It's not even rigged. It's just a solid hunk of...whatever.

Primorge - and everybody - many thanks for being incredibly helpful. Good news! The vendor herself has offered to trim that model down. She says she will reduce it to about 3 million polys -- which is a little better.
Yeah, should have bought the Salty Scarlett set. Thought about it.

Oh, and I missed the part about 13 million polys too.

I did consider buying a costume for V4 and just doing it like that ... but oh no I had to be adventurous. The model was only 12 bucks, so.... In any case, I'm running a pretty fast new iMac, so like I say, the model WILL load -- but it's hell to work with. Incidentally, the site said I could contact the vendor and ask for different file types -- so I messaged and asked about reducing the size. I got a response in (translated) Russian telling me no way Poser could handle that model and there was nothing they could do, etc. Yeah...right.

Primorge - thanks! I'll do that and report back on my success.

Hartybart -- thanks for the info. I don't have an old DAZ program. I use Poser - for whatever insane reason...

Primorge -- that's a great offer! I might take you up on that - but first I'm gonna struggle with it a little more. Just so you know -- it's this thing --- https://3dexport.com/3dmodel-pirate-woman-high-poly-272731.htm

And since it has no mats I was just gonna use it as sort of a statue - decorating a pirate themed bar.

I tried reducing the polygons -- didn't do it right the first time and NOW that option is greyed out

bwldrd -- it is just a solid object -- I'll try your suggestion