Quote - Can't address the missing pz3 issue, but the missing hips on V4 has been in past posting here. Here's my post on it from last time.

I've have had this problem a lot and posted the issue here on Renderosity's forum before. You might look for words like "missing hip" and such and you'll see others have too.

 

One suggestion that has been made to me is open the scene file (pz3) and look for "actor hip". You'll probably find it is missing two simple lines of code as shown below. You can add them back in and re-save the file (I'd give it a new name) as text. 

actor hip:1
      {

      }

 

should look like

 

actor hip:1
      {
      storageOffset 0 0 0
      geomHandlerGeom 13 hip

      }

 

This can take a while if the file is big, and sometimes Notepad won't do it. I use Word to add in the missing info (save back out as text but be prepared for a long wait if the file is big). Sometimes the hip comes back distorted. I usually have to play with the body morphs (like waist width) to get them back into shape. Sometimes after losing the hip, I'll lose the abdomen next. Really weird. I use P7 but see where this has happened in P8 also.

 

One other tip (as you noted, but I'll repeat). If you catch this immediately upon opening the file, try "revert" which will reload the file. Sometimes the hips re-appear. However, if you saved the file already with the hip gone, this will not help and you have to do the trick cited above.

 

Good luck.

I use Notepad++ for editing large Poser files. It's free, and much faster than either Word or Notepad.