Some embedded geometry in one of my scene files must have become corrupted somehow, in that charming random way that Poser has. When I next loaded up the scene, I saw the attached message.

It seems not too bad, on the face of it. It appears to be saying the geometry will be loaded, but I might not be able to apply textures to it. Not to worry, I was using procedural materials anyway; and if UV mapping is required, I still have the OBJ file I imported and I can get the mapping back easily enough.

That error message isn't wholly accurate, as it turns out. Who'd have thought it? :)

What it really means is this, roughly translated: "Your geometry has been removed, and in its place I've substituted a randomly coloured cylinder which can't be deleted, or even made invisible. Have a nice day. :P"

It's a good thing I keep back-ups, huh?

I'm not looking for a solution, by the way. I just wanted to share the weirdness with you. I figure that, where Poser is concerned, there are some things us mortals are not supposed to dabble with. If there's a moral to be taken from this tale, it is that back-ups can be quite useful.

Have a nice weekend, Poser users, and may your texture coordinates never go bad. :P

(Message text, for the benefit of the forum search and text-to-speech users: A geometry being read in has bad texture coordinates - they are being removed.)