I've been working on a walrus man model for about a week now and all of a sudden today when i opened my pz3 file his head was invisible. The heirarchy editor showed it was there and that it was visible but it's not. Rendering it only makes it a well rendered invisible headed person. What happened and how can i fix it? more importantly how can i prevent it from happening to other projects i'm working on?!

Hi garicstarr, which poser version are you using? Please note Poser 4 is preparing these *.rsr in the geometries folder. Delete all *.rsr in there (Careful: Not in Libaries) Else: Did you build up your man in any 3D-Modeller? Sometimes we had the same problem: Working out an item in RDS means, we had to rename the bodyparts in there sometimes. So we typed 'rSin' instead of 'rShin' and made an export. As a result, this bodypart was invisible at Poser. Please check your *.obj. Are all bodyparts written correctly? Regards Daniel + Matthias Kruse

I am using poser 4 pro pack. So delete all rsr files in the geometries folder? What is causing it this and how do i prevent it?

When Poser uses a model which has an associated OBJ mesh for the first time, it creates a matching RSR in the Geometries folder with the same name. From then on, it loads the RSR whenever that model is used - it loads faster that way. But if Poser goes wrong while it has the RSR open, it can get corrupted. The solution then is to delete only the RSR that's named the same as the OBJ you've created, and Poser will remake it next time you open that figure. If you want to stop it happening again, you can change the RSR's properties to read only once it's been re-made. Exit Poser before doing this, though.

Although what has been said above regarding geometry RSR files is correct it does not apply to Poser Pro Pack. The Pro Pack does not use geometry RSR files, it reads the OBJ direct.

Double check your OBJ file, open it in UVMapper and check the group names. If you have been editing it there exists the possibility that the group names have changed. For example one of the export option out of Poser will add "Figure1_" to all groups. Other modeling applications make similar alterations. The names must match what is in the CR2.

Looks like the obj file was corrupted. Thankfully, i had the figure backed up. I'll just have to redo all the magnets on it. Weird. Thanks for the help though. Actually worked out better because i now am better at the magnets than before it it came out better. :)