Hi, I've been trying to create a new figure out of a prop in the Setup Room.  The new figure is a set of suspenders created from an item I bought on Renderosity.  I am using Michael 4 and am having troubles.  Basically I do the following:

1. import a prop into Poser (in this case the suspenders)
2. Open the grouping tool and "add all" facets of the prop to a new group.
3. Open up the setup room.
4. Import Michael 4 into the Setup room with the prop in it.
5. "Auto group" the prop to Michael 4.
6. Exit the Setup Room.

Every time I exit the setup room my new figure has this rod sticking out of the pelvis.  It would be hysterically funny if it weren't for the fact that I've wasted a lot of time trying to create the figure.

I'm sorry - but that is, in fact, hysterically funny. The WTF was icing on the cake.

Send it to Smith Micro. chuckle

Sorry I can't help.

Has anyone else had this problem trying to create conforming figures in the Setup room with Michael 4?  Now if I go to the material room and select "preview" and change the color of "preview" it changes the color of this one piece.  This is just weird.  I have no idea why the Michael 4 skeleton is doing this.  ????     :(

That one I know about. Did you assign a material to the prop? If not, the only material an imported prop has by default is the one called "Preview". You would have to assign new material zone(s) to get anything else.

Try opening up the OBJ in a modeling program or UVMapper and see if that hip part is in the OBJ or not.  If it is there you should be able to just delete it from you new OBJ and it should be fine.  Either that or try making the hip of you new figure invisible.  To me it looks like a place holder for the hip in the original OBJ file that was hidden later.  Things like that are useful when creating figures using the Old PHI builder method of creating Poser figures

Isn't that one of the Setup Room boners?  I mean bones?
Sometimes the Setup Room pieces remain set up after
you leave the room.  

Call Dr Geep if it's still there after four hours.

Stop feeding him Viagra. :lol:
Sorry, couldn't resist. ... My bad. ... ;=[

That has happened to me when the "host" rig has a smart prop attached to it, and there is no mesh group to define it in the ummm "new" conforming mesh. Just erase the bone in the Pose room.
Or edit the cr2 so it has no smart parent thingies or compound conforming thingies, just the main figure, before using it as a rig in the setup room.

Quote - I'm sorry - but that is, in fact, hysterically funny. The WTF was icing on the cake.

Send it to Smith Micro. chuckle

Sorry I can't help.

I think Victoria can helps :D

Did you check obj? Maybe you imported/exported obj with bone.

Well, no luck with getting rid of the boner...I mean bone.  The only thing I can do is set the preview material to transparent.  It seems to be doing this EVERY time I import Michael 4 into the setup room.  No one else has this problem at all?  It must be some glitch just with my Poser 7 and no one elses.  :(

Quote - That has happened to me when the "host" rig has a smart prop attached to it, and there is no mesh group to define it in the ummm "new" conforming mesh. Just erase the bone in the Pose room.
Or edit the cr2 so it has no smart parent thingies or compound conforming thingies, just the main figure, before using it as a rig in the setup room.

I firmly suspect Michael's ummm "thing" is a smart prop, hence the "bone" pops up when you use that rig for the conforming clothing. I don't use Michael, though, so I cannot be 100% sure that is the cause.
You should check the rig for any attached smart props and remove them, save that as a new figure, then apply it to the clothing. Or better yet, check the cr2 file in a cr2-aware proggie like cr2edit, or one of PhilC's python utilities.