I am about to file P6 in the rubbish bin!!! Whenever I save a file as .obj to use in Carrara4--it utterly blacks out, closes down my computer, when I try to work on the download in Carrara. Also the object size in Carrara is very small. All advice welcome please.

Try loading into UVmapper and then saving with normals.

If that doesn't work compare what Carrara saves in an OBJ file with what Poser saves and report back.

nruddock it seems that the inclusion of Hair caused the problem. I dont quite understand about saving with normals-might this overcome the nasty response to the hair?

search around for the objaction scaler. Poser uses the meshes in very small units, this can be quite a problem in most apps. I thought Carrara had a Poser importer plugin...

If I understand it, Poser6 is crashing on export. It doesn't appear to be a Carrara4 import issue. That said, since Carrara4 pro includes the Transposer plug-in as part of the package, I'd suggest leaving Poser and opening the pz3 from within Carrara. If it's manipulation of the mesh you are after, you can run "convert to other modeller" within Carrara. What is it you mean to do with the mesh once you've imported it?

The problem is with Poser 6. I can save as a PZ3 in P6 and open in P5 (where Transposer is OK) but a LONG tedious process is involved in having to locate every .obj and .jpg before one can save that Carrara acceptable P5 PZ3. I really am finding it hard to justify the P6 update. Thanks all.

How about adding your P6 runtime to Poser5 so it locates it automatically. Or, of course, hopefully with some search/replace in a text editor you could change the pathnames quickly.