Quote - Yes, provided that the geometry is embedded, renaming the .pp2 extension to .obj will create an obj.

No it won't! What you have created is a corrupt file that contains elements of the obj file specification, plus a lot of junk that should not be in an obj file.

This needs to be understood. You can't convert a pp2 file to an obj file, or vice versa, by changing the file extension. It will just be what it originally was, but with the wrong file extension. An obj file renamed as a pp2 just won't work. With a pp2 renamed as obj, you may be able to import the geometry into Poser, if, and only if the file uses geomCustom. Although you may be able to import the geometry from such a file, it has NOT been converted to a true obj file, because it contains a lot of useless junk that does not belong in an obj file, and if the file uses an external obj reference it just won't work art all. Try saving a the Poser box.pp2 as "box.obj", you might try saving a jpg file as obj as well, you have just as much chance of it working.

The reason saving a pp2 as a corrupted obj file may work, is that if (and only if) the file contains a geomCustom section, that section will be the same as an uncorrupted obj file. If you are lucky poser will ignore the corrupt part of the file, but there is no guarantee that the corruptions will not cause problems in some cases. The obj format can be considered as a subset of the pp2 format, but a pp2 file is never the same as an obj file. If you don't believe me, try looking inside the files and see for yourself.