Thanks for commenting. They appear in preview and in renders - but only after i change the skinning mode and increase the subdivision level. It's like they aren't grouped, but I would have thought increasing subdivision would leave all the vertices grouped. unless I resave the item after subdivision - it would not have a new .obj file?? This might indicate I don't understand the spirit of increasing the subdivision level. I was imagining it as something I did when close to being done - ie after all the test renders etc. I didn't imagine it as a way to improve the basic figure and resave it the library with a new .obj file.

Andy, I am a Poser 10 user and have Morph Manager 4.0. I have NEVER successfully copied a morph. I imagine copying a morph from the character (native or third-party addon) and pasting it to the (conforming) clothing using the side-by-side feature of the application. Seems quite simple. NEVER pulled it off. Perhaps I am having issues with reading comprehension but any thoughts would be appreciated.

Steve

AC2 is a conforming figure - seems quite impressive. http://www.most-digital-creations.com/anatomically_correct_2.htm But for V4.

Sorry - should have asked - TDMT?

Thanks for this AsteroidLady. Next week when I am back to my own machine I will send you some rendered examples if you are interested. I have used your suggestions to some success using the AdzHeroGen prop. I have also used Anatomically Correct Evolution from MostDigitalCreations and it works fine from a distance (it is a texture with bump and displacement - actually quite good (for a 'trick' ). Real Dawn (from Renderotica if I recall) works but has the limitation of leg alignment issues (Because it actually replaces the lower hips/pelvis with new geometry I think) and for me requires careful editing. I have played about in the Setup Room with the AdzHeroGen with the Joint Editor (centre and end points) and gotten it to conform to the zero pose (through brute force) but I think the bone setup is different between the prop and the figure meaning it does not follow well when posed. This is the origin of the contemplation of 'swapping out the common bones in the prop with copies of those from the figure' in a CR2Editor comes from.
I have also looked at using Lali's Bits as a prop with Dawn and recently exchanged email with Adam Thwaites regarding their AC2. While he correctly pointed out that AC2 does not support Dawn, that was as far as he went.
There are tons of options it would seem, all with pros and cons. I don't have the support pack for Dawn but I would be interested if anyone has used the Wardrobe Wizard as PhilC suggests. That would be pretty cool (if you could convert a V4 genital prop (as though it were clothes) so that it worked with Dawn) because the previews of AC2 are very impressive to be sure. Any thoughts/suggestions welcome and thanks again. SJG

PhilC, Thanks so much for responding. I mentioned I was new. I have not had much luck with the Wizard. I will try again when I get home to the PC where my stuff is installed. I have been using quite a brute force technique of editing the .obj file and then using the target figures .cr2 for the new .obj. This process sacrifices any of the nice morphs in the original garment. I mentioned I was using Poser 10. At your http://istore.mikrotec.com/philc/index1.html?page=catalog&category=a&vid=2080245373&pid=1971630967&oldvid=2143420604 site your page for the Dawn support package mentions: Although regrouping will remove any clothing morphs they can easily be added back in using the Poser 10/Poser Pro 2014 menu option Figure > Copy Morphs from ... (Unfortunately not available in Poser 9). I don't seem to have that option in Poser 10 either - perhaps Poser 10 Pro? I have not found a way yet to move/copy morphs; beyond me at the moment. The yet more interesting part of my question is whether you can copy common bones, using CR2Editor, from Dusk or Dawn, to a third-party genitalia figure to allow it to generally conform to the Dusk or Dawn figure. I appreciate morphs are quite a different beast. Anyway, the theory sounds interesting. Thanks. SJG