Hi all,

I need to create a blank .cr2 for 3duniverse's Skye figure as a base for creating the necessary files for .pmd INJs. I purchased the Skye developer pack from Daz after speaking briefly with 3Duniverse wherein he stated that the full blank .cr2 included with the developer pack would fulfill these requirements. Unfortunately the blank .cr2 mesh that loaded in poser is missing some parts of the mesh and will result in a wrong vertex number error when I go to load my original morph targets. I've spent quite a bit of time on this project (over 30 fbms and pbms, a from scratch painted texture set with many variants, an optional genital prop with morphs, and a toon style Bob haircut prop with textures). I had hoped that purchasing the dev pack would overcome some hurdles that I encountered when trying to edit the Skye. Cr2 for a blank.

So... my questions are this:

1_What exactly needs to be removed from the original Skye .Cr2 in order to avoid propagating proprietary data to the INJ's?

I can easily manage to delete all of the base morphs and deformers (hidden included) and the IK chains from the .cr2 but I'm running into some confusion about deleting the various channels buried in there (especially the empty Daz style community channels). Is it even necessary to delete these channels for .pmd?

2_ is it possible to point the blank. Cr2 (from the dev. pack, which references an incomplete dev. mesh) at the full Skye.obj without error?

Some caveats regarding replies, as of this writing I do all of my Poser related work in Poser 8 on a pre-Intel ppc power Mac G5. Windows based utilities that automate such tasks are not available to me (morph manager, etc.) and I've learned to compensate solely through manual text editing. Any replies that are critical of software, hardware, etc. are not constructive or helpful and will be ignored.

Thanks for your helpful expertise in these matters.