Where can I find a detailed description of Poser PZ3 file innards?

you would have to buy it from CL. or, open a pz3 in wordpad and decifer it out. (with only lights and camera settings no models or props loaded into it to make it easier )

Curious Labs was going to have something like this available, it was promised a long, long time ago. Never surfaced, I'm pretty sure, for free or for sale. There are NO specs on any of the Poser formats, as far as I know. There is only "what works" and "what doesn't work", and your results will vary between Poser 2,3,4, PP and 5. I've heard the 5 doen't support the switching geometry files that were how Poser 2 did hands, that all versions supported untill now, for an example. Oh, and there is also "what seems to work" and "what should work but doesn't" ;-) What a can of worms!

Geometry switching still works in P5 (I've got Anton's Changing Fantasy Suits & Pony Tail). It's just that in P5 all morphs are always shown rather than just the morphs for the switche in part. -- Mark

I've heard there were some problems, how about CR2s that call different body parts in the top section of the CR2(rather than in a channel, like the hands)? My mermaid works that way, it uses the Vickie parts fown to the abdomen, then calls external files, one per part, from the hip down for the tail.

Jim, I don't have your mermaid, but I think this works as well. For example in PhilC's Harpie (which works fine in P5) figureResFile ...:harpie.obj actor BODY:1 { } ... actor head:1 { storageOffset 0 0 0 objFileGeom ...:femaleHeadOnly.obj } Is this the type you mean? -- Mark

Yep, exactly. Glad to hear it works!