Ghost actors with no geometry can cause all weight maps associated with that actor to be dropped.  I am wondering if something similar could be happening with the ERC.  :unsure:  Seems unlikely, but I guess it's possible.

If an actor has no geometry, the cr2 can be edited to give it some proxy geometry.  You can, for instance, just copy the geometry pointers from the standard ball prop pp2 file, pasting that in for the problem actor.

Quote - prop ball_1
{
    storageOffset 0 0.3487 0
    objFileGeom 0 0 :Runtime:Geometries:props:ball.obj
}

would become

Quote - actor chest:1
{
    storageOffset 0 0 0
    objFileGeom 0 0 :Runtime:Geometries:props:ball.obj
}

(I'm not sure what the storageOffset values indicate.  Body parts seem to favor "0 0 0", so I always enter that on the storageOffset line when entering objFileGeom lines for a body part actor.  So far I've never seen any difference when the storageOffset values are varied.  That whole question is probably a different discussion....  :unsure:)

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