HI ....so  I have been bringing OBJs into P7 and turning them into figures and I cannot find where the target  geometry for the CR2 is getting saved in my runtime.

I have checked in  Poser_Runtime_Geometries  and no OBJ (or OBZ or whatever) named  like the figure,  or the original  OBJ, is there.

(The OBJs  are coming in  from  a folder outside of my runtime, BTW)

Can  someone help me understand where I might be able to  look  for the target  geomteries  that  go  with the  CR2s  ???

Thanks

Oh  I am  a jackass -  they are in  the character folder with the  CR2.

oops sorry to  have bothered anyone.

You're no jackass. Most would think to look in the geometries folder for obj's, Poser saves to the Libraries:Character folder. If for some reason Poser borks your obj file or you would just rather have obj's in the geo folder, just edit the cr2 line.

Presto chango.

If you are using the Hierarchy Editor to create the figure, the obj geometry will initally be saved interlally in the cr2 as 'geomCustom' (internal geometry). If you then load the new figure in Poser and save it back to a palette, Poser will write an external obj, and place it in the same folder as the cr2 you saved.

If you want, you can move the obj file under the geometries folder, and edit the cr2 to reflect th new location of the obj. There are two lines in the cr2 that you need to edit, both begin with the word "figureResFile". The rest of those lines is the path to the obj file, using ":" as a seperator.

Thanks to you  both.

I wonder why  , then,  a GEOMETRIES folder even  exists in the first place?

Because it is supposed to be used and was used until about Poser 5-6 when the owners of the company decided to group them together so it would break if people moved it. It is still used by a number of companines and vendors.

A simple way of finding out where your .obj file is stashed is to open up your .cr2 file in Wordpad or something similar.  Right at the top you should see a line like...

figureResFile :Runtime:Geometries:Anton'sApolloMaximus:ApolloMaximus2005.obj

...which gives the path that the figure will look for to find it's geometry file.

You can also edit this line if you prefer to move the .obj file to a folder of your choice.  Be warned though, there are TWO referenced to this path in a .cr2 file.  It's an easy enough job to "search" for the second one though and adjust it accordingly.

"Because it is supposed to be used and was used until about Poser 5-6 when the owners of the company decided to group them together so it would break if people moved it. It is still used by a number of companines and vendors."

It gives you a lot more flexibility IMO. If you have multiple characters all using the same .obj file, you're free to place them wherever you want. We now have V4, A4, G4 S4 (K4?) all using the same geometry AFAIK. You don't necessarily want to put all those .cr2s and their variants, in the same folder with the .obj. It's similar to windows putting .dlls used by multiple programs in one central location. If you have a .cr2(s)/.obj set that's "unique," putting them in the same folder makes some sense.