Just discovered that if you Save As .3ds in Deep Exploration, or I imagine most modelers it breaks the models up into sub01 etc. parts which can then be re assigned new names in PoseRay. Just did a very large one and it works a treat. Will post a render when one is done....thanks to Jochen for the inspiration to try. Gonna spend Saturday converting Olive Trees to the TG3 religion ...later.....
As these models are quite huge, would sharing .mtl files alone be a way to get the TG friendly ones out there for the mac users who don't have PoseRay access?
I added a .mtl for Olive Tree 2 if anyone wants to try. If this works I'll upload em as I convert em.