Way back in time, somebody found out that a pose file can actually change anything, not just the pose. I've never done this, but I understand that for all intents and purpose, many of the commands and directives allowed in a pose file are the same commands and directives allowed in a figure file. So people started hacking figure files and storing them in the pose folder instead.

These files lack geometry information (they don't actually contain a mesh) but do have the other information that would be in a figure file that describe the materials and morph dial settings.

Even though this tactic is in widespread use, the programmers of Poser never provided a way to do it within Poser itself. It would be highly desirable if the act of saving a figure in the pose library would prompt you to ask which aspects to record - pose, materials, dial settings, morphs. Sadly this is not the case.

I'm sure someone else could chime in here. I've heard of programs,  for example Mat Pose Edit or something, that do this for you. I've also seen threads that describe copying a CR2 file, opening in a text editor, and making the necessary verbage changes as well as deleting the mesh info, as a way to create mat pose files and such. I've never used any of these.

The Renderosity forum search works pretty well now, so I expect you can learn quite a bit from existing posts.

Here is a link to a tutorial on using MAT Pose Edit

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