I have a couple of saved characters in a PZ3 format, so I'm exactly sure what I did to make it do this.

hard to tell - but sounds like maybe these characters only exist as elements of a scene ( pz3 )

where you might have some characters jumbled up.......sounds to me like the morphs ++ might be applied to someone else in the scene? someone invisible?

Maybe you can try working in a clean scene with a CR2:

Try this:

open the .pz3 that shows your character....click on the charachter to highlight any part of its body....save the character in the figures library

close the current scene.

open a brand new scene and load your character from the library ...make sure your character is the only one in the scene by deleting any default load figure that might pop up.

inject ++ morphs

dials should work

*new poser users are mostly interested in posting a large-boobed girl in order to get congratulatory comments, and AFATK nobody looks at the face

Yeah !     Young whippersnappers !!!! 

Summer what bucket size are you set for in the render options?
64?   more?  less?

Whatever it is set for -you might want to decrease the bucket size, lower bucket number renders  draw on less memory ( but the renders take longer)

Welcome to Daz's Victoria.

Wait 'til you see her teeth fly out,  you're gonna be amazed......

*But while there are many tutorials on lights, cameras, and so on, it's hard to find something about expressions. Maybe because each character is a different story?

*Its a very subjective area......I might find a certain smile on someone's face appealing while you do not

I rarely find the "built in " emotion dials useful. If I want the character to look surprised, for example, I would not go to the "surprised!"  dial that you can find in Poser figures and the Daz figures  morphs ++, these dials cause too much movement all over the face..... I find it better, for example,to lift the eyelids very very slightly with an eyelid only dial , or a magnet,  and I would do the same for the eyebrows- slight lift with an eyebrow ony dial or a mag. You would be *surprised
*(ha ha ) how much better that subtle look is than the built in emotion dials

OH  the "attachments"  are  like  the drink glass and the umbrella  which are  separate entities  sitting on the prop : the table mask thingy   (" *shut up and get me a drink, bitch !!!!!  " ) *

I did not understand that.

NOW I see what your problem  is / was

BTW  I love that prop    .......Just wondering if you considered resting the drink on top of the figures head - that is believed by some to be very convenient.

Thanks!
Although Trekkie no doubt already knows that stuff!!

I think it would be helpful to selct a few polys fom the figure X's body and call them" base for character X", and make it a prop and dont bother to materialize it, move your prop  (he he he) into position onto this base with your character X zeroed in the scene........... export an .obj, and select your prop  and the "base" to be the parts of the .obj. ......name it "prop that fits character X". .......then you can bring it back in and save it in your library. When you load this prop, it will always fit character X snug as a bug.

repeat process for character's Y and Z, changing prop names as appropriate

Doc did I do good?

P.S.   I might be totally wrong about what your goal is here....how about a hint ...can this  prop be enjoyed by one,  two, or more figures  at   one time?????

*"OK here's the deal: I'm making a prop that has several attachments ....."
                              

• LOLOLOLOL !!!

yeah  I wanna see, too !!!!!

Why do you need to do this with a mask method.

Also - Is this the only displacement you want to do on the "head" Poser surface?

Now you are being  WAY TOO nice !!!

I love your Kerry character - very sexy.

whatcha' got comin???

yes ....... YES ...... I MUST LEARN HOW TO DO  THIS !!!

I don't know how MANLY you want the shirt to be.....  but let me say that I use and really really like svdl's office clothing freebie for V.4... The (dynamic) blouse buttons  and  you can possibly scale and texture it to look like a guys shirt

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/search.php?section_id=-1&query=Victoria+4+office+clothing&sort=relevancy&use_age=no&older_age=&older_units=day&newer_age=&newer_units=day&username=&section_selector%5B0%5D=-1

right EB......  I think am not not actualy "injecting".....  I am writng a command line to go seek the PMD info,  and I am misnomering this an "injection" file.

So what I need is a way to not rely on a PMD file that is created in and of itself for this purpose.....  is that what y'all are saying?