Is there a way to internally rename Full Body Morphs where they still work on the figure but don't result in "crosstalk" when two figures with the same FBM's are in a scene? Or do I have to delete them, and set them up again with new names? I'm using P4 Pro Pack, BTW. Thanks. :)

There is indeed a way...but... Poser5 is fairly immune to this form of crosstalk. If you are still in Poser4, there has been some success with what is called a "null" figure. Still, since you show willingness to edit the internal files, I'd recommend that as being the safer and more efficient attack. The only editing you need is on the donor (aka, the dial that controls all the subsidiary morphs) and on the section within the various smaller morphs where they "point" at the master dial. And you don't even need to know that much. All you need to do is open the cr2 of the figure you mean to edit (better make that a COPY of that figure!!) with a text editor. I use BBedit myself. I'm told Wordpad works fine. Do a global search-and-replace for the internal name of the FBM dial. Okay, that does mean you need to know the INTERNAL name, not just the user name. I'm not sure how much (if any) experience you have with what the inside of a cr2 looks like. The central, and longest, part of it is the details on each of the "actors" (body parts). Near the top of each actor is where you find the morph dials, usually in the format ; targetGeom allZ { name allZ initValue 0.... The first name is the internal name, the one that ERC will be looking for. The second name is the user name; although the user name can be edited in Poser, Poser doesn't use it itself. So don't change the user name and expect anything to happen! Sorry. After midnight here. Clear as mud?

Thank you! What I needed really, was what to look for in the .cr2 file. I do frequently edit them (.cr2 and other Poser files...mostly to change .obj info) manually with Edit Pad, which is a general text editor that handles files much larger than Notepad can, and works excellent with any and all files text-based. But I never could figure out what to look for as far as FBM's are concerned. Thanks again. :)

Here's a more common form of a master FBM dial: channels { valueParm tentenFBM { name tentenFBM initValue 0 And here's the "five magic lines" of ERC slave code, in context in a body part: channels { targetGeom tentenFBM { name tentenFBM initValue 0 hidden 0 forceLimits 4 min -100000 max 100000 trackingScale 0.00645372 keys { static 0 k 0 0 } interpStyleLocked 0 valueOpDeltaAdd Figure 2 BODY:2 tentenFBM deltaAddDelta 1.000000

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