The shaping is baked into the mesh, so all of the Hair Room tools can be used after the path curves are used to position hairs.  The vertex count per hair can be changed.  Dynamics work nicely.  The only thing you can't do is use the Growth Tools after shaping the hair, or the shaping is dropped.  This seems to be true of any shaping applied using the styling tools too, however, and it can be undone.  So things look promising, so far.  I'll keep tinkering.

Meanwhile I'm halfway through updating the extrusion and chain prop scripts for new features, and I have a couple of thoughts about how to approach the base link problem, and possibly the speed issues, with the posing script.  When you're stuck, sometimes it helps to step away from something for a bit, perhaps.  :unsure:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.