Jarrad Russell

No worries! Try this.

See how you go, if this doesn't work then perhaps delete the whole ‘new’ set of hair nodes and make fresh ones - sometimes this fixes unexplained problems (or copy them from your groom-exporter file where I assume they do work).

Your method doesn't work for me either. Instead of ‘groom object’ I used ‘groom file’ and it works fine when I link the geo up directly.

Whereabouts is the ‘external groom source’ you mention? There are a few options for file caching guides on the top level of the groom nodes - that could be an option for you (it's bgeo.sc by the way) if you save from the source file and load that in on the new file.

Might be helpful to know how/where you're inputting the exported geo however.