Stonemason: 

Quote - > Quote - (which is what Stonemason e.g. does) .

 
keep in mind many of my early models were made at a time when the only render engine Poser had was the p4 engine..smoothing,firefly,displacement etc weren't available so splitting verts was the best option and at the time caused no problems at all.
I now use smooth groups from 3dsmax & in D|S I use smoothing by material to get hard edges,If I have a model that needs to be subdivided I'll do that sub-d in max,I also try to disable smoothing in each prop/figure so what the user does in render settings makes no changes to the model.

I think you understood what I was getting at but just to be sure: that wasn't any kind of complaint about your modeling work, which is excellent, just an observation about how it behaves (at least the older stuff).  Keep up the good work :)

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