primorge posted at 6:53 AM Tue, 12 October 2021 - #4428812

RedPhantom posted at 5:23 PM Sun, 10 October 2021 - #4428751

The old legacy content used geometry switching to swap a hip with genitals with one without it. It is obsolete and breaks the newer geometry. You can read more about it here https://www.renderosity.com/forums/comments/4427931/permalink as well as a workaround.

It's not obsolete in the slightest.

It's very very useful in figures that are mechanical, segmented, robot, etc. It allows you to swap out any number of body parts via a dial; the parts are unique geometry (unlike morph) that can contain their own unique UVs, material definitions, and morphs. If you are only looking through the lens of a Poser figure that has welded body part groups and requires unbroken or mesh continuous bends I can see where this might seem to be the case, in fact, by and large, there are more Poser figures in existence that DON'T fit that criteria. Most likely many aren't even aware of the hidden functionality, it's simply a few instances of code and a geometry file reference in a cr2. 

Just wanted to point this out, it's a topic that been of interest to me and also a concern about changes or deprecation of Poser features going forward.

I'm repeating what one of the developers said. If you follow the link, you can read a more thorough explanation. And while I agree that geometry switching would be nice, and can see plenty of uses for it,  the question wasn't about generic switching of any part, the replace body part with prop is still there. The question was about the genital switch. Just switching out a hip is less useful. Very rarely do you see a robot with just a mechanical pelvis area or someone with a prosthetic pelvis. Hip replacements look aren't visible from the outside save for a scar.

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