Wings exports .obj's. like if you have a cube and a sphere, even if they're the same default material, they export separately and bryce 5 imports them separately (yet grouped). Bryce 5.5 not only imports them as ONE mesh, but doesn't seem to handle material settings very well. Like if you give three objects three different materials, Bryce 5.5 only recognizes one of them and the other two meshes are again together. and for the cherry on the cake, if you have two spheres in wings, let's say, and you give each of them two different materials, they won't be imported as two spheres with two materials each, they will be imported into 5.5 as two groups of two meshes (each material respectively). you add one more material, and that's not recognized. one major GRRRR for me, one possible GRRRR for those who use other modelling apps. drac