I've had it working well for me the past few days.  the trick was 'no mesh splitting' on import.

thanks for everyone's help! 

I'm using riptide from the plugin menu.  by explode, I mean the vertices fire out in random directions, or implode randomly. 

I'll try a few imports and exports to deduce the problem.

Perhaps I incorrectly exported the file from Poser?

Well, I've given it another try.  I started over using riptide.  I exported the figure head from poser and pulled it into C4D with Riptide.  But now I'm getting an explosion of polygons whenever I apply the morph in Poser.  I've tried a few export and import options with riptide.  I'm not sure what settings are ideal.  Should I reverse faces at any of the import or export stages? 

Thanks again,
Brian

One more question here.  Every time I import M3, he has these big clay eyebrows tacked on.  I don't remember them being there before.  And I don't like them being there now.  Or should I just let them be?

This looks a lot more promising.

I'm learning a lot here :-)

Spanki, yes your documentation is quite complete.  but my sleepy eyes struggled with it today. 

You've all been very helpful.  I'm going to start over and move the data around as all of you have suggested.

Live, learn, and do it over ;-)

very groovey!

kuroyume0161,

regaurding 1, what or where is the base geometry?  What do you mean the OBJ file reference can be found in the CR2 file?  What do you mean by zero the figure?

I managed to figure out that C4D prefers the poser and OBJ files magnified 1000 times.

Is this thing helpful?
http://www.uvmapper.com/features.html

how bout this?
pCharacter2FBX
http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/-/?item=3646

I don't think riptide isn't striaghtforward enough for me yet.  I was wondering about the use of interposer.  Could I import the poser file of M3 into C4D and use the face gestures on the new head in C4D, or will I still have the same problem with the vertices being disorderly?

I'm not very familiar with the use of UV mappers.  would something like that be helpful?

If I have to do the work over again, what would be the best way to do it?  What's the workflow process?  Would it be something like export the figure from Poser as OBJ.  Import it into C4D with riptide using some set of unkown settings.  Create the morph without cutting anything in half.  Then export the file with riptide as OBJ using another set of magical settings, and then import the morph into Poser.

I can import the current head into poser without getting a jumbled mess of spikes or points.  It just comes in as an object if imported, and nothing as a morph.

What about FBX files?  Is that something Poser can work with?  Would FBX solve any of these problems?  What about other file types like 3DS, DXF, etc.?

Thanks again for everyone's help.  I appreciate it.

Brian

Does this mean when I imported the head the vertices were re-ordered?  And can I not re-order them back?  I halved the head and worked over one side to save time, and then made it symmetrical. 

I'll give the download a try on the current head.  Thanks for the link! 

Thanks Shonner. the more I see what amapi can do the more serious I get about buying Amapi 8.