I don't know if this is common knowledge, but I've only just discovered it, and I've never seen it mentioned in any FAQs. I was fed up with poser smoothing all my imported objects, so I set out to find out why. Was it a setting in a pp2 file? a strange material in a CR2 file? Nope, nothing so complicated. Every time I import an object, I have the "Weld identical vertices",box checked simply becauseit seemed like a good idea. Uncheck the box, import the object, and Voila! a perfectly unsmoothed object! Sorry if I'm telling you something you already know, but its been bugging me since Poser3, so I assume there must somebody else like me out there who is pulling his/her hair out over this. all the best, Dal

Actually this wodes help. I have a really great set of scales that are perfect in Bryce, RDS and look like hell in Poser because of this. Thanks!

Thanks for passing this on. Rob

So now I'm confused. I've been working on models of geodesic domes (Dome 4.6 (FAT)==>Meshwork==>.DXF) rendered in Poser, and the first time I rendered after paying the Meshwork shareware fee (to remove the <20 faces limit) it come out smoothed and I was completely flummoxed. I tried again the next night and got a nice faceted shape, and have since. I'll have to go look at this 'Weld identical vertexes' thing. (btw, when I sort some things out I feel almost obligated to post some dome models.)

Now that's a handy tip, and one that'll keep me from going totally bald. Thanks a million for posting this Paul

I never use the weld checkbox and my OBJs are smoothed anyway. -JH.