To Whom It May Concern,

My request is to bring back the Genital Switch so they will stay on for my rendering and animation. I find it an extreme inconvenience to constantly turn it on constantly. Why it was removed I can only assume it must have offended somebody. I consider it a form of censorship. What I do in the privacy of my own home with my computer is my business. Funny, naked Genitals seem to offend somebody! Well I find that your website, marketplace and gallery contains weapons and violence which I find extremely offensive. I thought Renderosity and Poser was meant to be an outlet for artists to express themselves. I’ve been a poser user for over 30 years and I’ve spend thousands and thousands of dollars on content from your website on others just look at my profile. I have not upgraded to the new poser nor will I until that feature is brought back. That’s not a threat just my feelings as a longtime Poser user. Thanks for listening.

It wasn't removed because it offended people, it was removed because it was obsolete. Most current figures don't use it. They either have genitals or they don't any have an add-on.

There is this script https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/83353/poser-11---deprecated-functions but it was for poser 11 where the switch was originally removed. I don't know if it will work in poser 12

YOu can read more about it here https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2937989/a-tail-of-woe-pun-very-much-intended?page=1. There's a fix on page 2 that works for poser 12 and an explanation on page 4

Thanks for your reply, and no the script doesn't work.  Just because Rendo wants to change - improve Poser they shouldn't remove features that worked unless it interferes with other important features or is extremely expensive to maintain.  Do they have enough user base to discard old users??   

I have over 100GB of runtime files and yes I don't use all of them.  But I invested lots of time in creating faces for custom figures.  And yes using old Poser figures like James, Jess, M4, V4 Etc. and the switch worked for them. I had an exchange with support when it was removed and yes it's still accessed in properties but with difficulty and frustration and it goes away constantly.  This thread is asking for REQUESTED features so this is my request!!

You can still turn on the genitals,

You can turn it on the the Poser.ini file. It's located in:

%appdata%\Poser\12\

Open with a text editor DO NOT USE WORD

Look for: GENITALS_ON 0

and change to: GENITALS_ON 1

This will permanently turn the genitals on for the legacy figures that support it.

----OR---

You can turn it on for one figure by showing the hidden parameters ...

Unfortunately, the Genitalia switch on the figures menu will never return, at least not in it's previous form. The geometry substitution method it uses wrecks any weight mapped figure. Any figure made in the past 15 years is incompatible. Also the switch was all or nothing. You can't turn it on for just one figure. By changing the setting in the figure you can have it on for one figure and off for another. Any new system would be incompatible with legacy figures any way.

NOTE: if you change it with the figure's parameters the setting will revert to the setting in your Poser.ini when you save and reload the scene. (See, it was a bad idea in the first place.) If you save a pose for each figure, that will remember the setting. Making the figures NOT respond to the setting in Poser.INI requires reworking the figure. If somebody wants to undertake the task of re-wiring the dependencies in the legacy figures I'll be glad to point to the bits that need changing.

I'm curious whether Geometry Switching tech is going to be removed from Poser code? 

Geometry Switching is still very useful in mechanical/robot and doll type figures that do not utilize welding of body part groups; non unimesh, and not weight mapped.

Absolutely not. Geometry switching is important to many other functions. Geometry switch is not going anywhere. The way it works on new figures needs to be rethought as it already doesn't work with Poser unimesh figures.

Absolutely not. Geometry switching is important to many other functions. Geometry switch is not going anywhere. The way it works on new figures needs to be rethought as it already doesn't work with Poser unimesh figures.