EldritchCellar posted at 11:43AM Tue, 05 April 2016 - #4264114

I've found that in figures that I've made that Poser usually appends the internal actor names with :1 when saved to the library. You would think there was some importance to this but I've noticed that deleting this numbering and : has no noticable ill effects on the figure's functionality (such as crosstalk or whatever). AFAIK it's just another one of those weird (and slightly irritating) things with Poser. Maybe somebody like Nerd or PhilC or NetherWorks would know? Maybe Snarly.

There is some importance/relevance to the :1, :2, etc, although it may be purely historical - I remember reading about it years back when I made my first Poser models. Something to do with avoiding crosstalk? That rings a bell, although I may be thinking of something else.

I also recall the advice that you should remove the :1, :2 from the internal names in the CR2 - at least for the sort of thing I was doing when I read the advice.

Also note that it's not saving things to the library that causes the ':1' etc to be appended. This little PoserPython script prints the external and internal name of every actor in a scene to the debug window, and you'll see that the :1 etc is there before you save the CR2... I think

import poser
scn = poser.Scene()
actlist = scn.Actors()
for act in actlist:
    print "External Name = "+act.Name()+" (Internal Name = "+act.InternalName()+")"

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The 3Dcheapskate (also available in DAZ and HiveWire3D flavours) occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.