Quote - I was vaguely aware that that was possible or figured someone had figured out something like that...  But if I have to hack the cr2 it points to a deficiency in Poser's feature set.  We have a replace body part with prop, but it doesn't create the  smooth join of the replaced part.  Perhaps it was assumed that most users would not know how to properly create a body part that could be inserted and welded at the join, but it seems like it would be the same process as creating a working morph target in another program.

In a way, this topic may reveal why it's nice that Poser has generally retained legacy features, even when they have no common utility in later versions.  The body-switching hack was devised to exploit the method used to give Poser 2 figures multiple hand shapes.  Those figures had a dial which switched the hand geometry between different static obj files for the various hand poses.  Poser 3+ figures have fully poseable hands, but the hand-swapping code is still in there, allowing us to swap out any body parts at all, albeit with a cr2 hack.  The code is still in there, but it hasn't been formally opened up for access within Poser, because the feature only existed for those Poser 2 figures.

Leaving old features in Poser helps create a playground for the Poser-techies.  IMO, that's one of the things that makes Poser so much fun.  The Poser-techie extras are harder to develop and maintain, though, which can be a bit irritating.  If and when they start dropping features, we could lose some of our techie hacks.  I suspect some of those hacks are things we'd miss if they were gone, and some of them we may not even think about as hacks.  MAT poses, all the other extra sorts of poses are techie hacks.  There are bunches of them.

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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.