Is it possible in one of the recent versions of Poser to save a prop without embedding the OBJ data? I know there are utilities to extract the OBJ (I have one) and it's possible to do it with a text editor (I've done that more times than I can count), but I'd like to be able to save a prop and still reference the external OBJ that I imported to create it in the first place. To me, it would make sense for this to be the default if you save the OBJ in a Poser Runtime under RuntimeGeometries[your file path] and import it from there. If not, this sounds like a great thing to request in the next version.

This weekend, I tried manually extracting the geometries from a complex prop - 1 parent with about 8 child props - and the results were not ... pretty. Specifically, it somehow screwed up all the UV mapping, even though the individual OBJs are still properly mapped - they just don't load the maps correctly in Poser. It also lost the family hierarchy - all the parented props were loose when the PP2 loaded. That latter may have been me missing something or accidentally deleting something - the items were huge, with more than a million lines in the PP2 file before removing the geometry, and it's possible I selected lines that I shouldn't have. But the UV mismapping is puzzling.