@Les: How did you reduce the sphere?  It seems like parts of the geometry have collapsed or something.  But all of the vertices are still there, and the polygon linkages are correct.  (Edit: jestmart just said that.  D'Oh. )

That compressed form of the sphere portion of the base prop would explain the pattern of hard edges I was seeing when I tried your objects.  So at least there are indications that Poser's behavior is sane and consistent.  :laugh:

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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.