Thanks again bob1965, that highlighted what I'm doing wrong!

The original CR2 is something I cobbled together in a text editor with just the dials I wanted (and therein appears to lie the problem). But since I'd included all the standard rotate/translate/scale dials for the BODY part, I followed your step-by-step advice and played around with them. It works exactly like you said it would - same dials behaviour in both Poser and D|S.

"...so be real sure you understand what you are altering..."

Sage advice - but at present I'm playing around with the CR2s precisely to try and understand how they work (I'm using Kuroyume's unofficial CR2 spec as my main reference).

I'm aware of the comment syntax, and also how easy it is to mess up a Poser file (I do it regularly!) But even so, at this stage I prefer to do most of my file editing longhand in a text editor. The files are pretty small at present, and each mistake  I make and  fix is a new lesson (sometimes the same lesson again!)

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The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

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