Hello everyone! I just recieved a Poser 4 package as a gift recently and am anxious to produce some work worthy of posting here. I have done several pencil drawings and oil paintings which are on-line at various sites under the name PACKMAN. But I am having trouble getting off and running with Poser 4. The manual doesnt seem to match up with what I see on my screen. I dunno... maybe it's just me. I cannot get the clothing and props to move as I adjust my figures. Also, I have downloaded props and settings from this site, but havent figured out how to incorporate them into the program. And my final problem is that I was wondering how to add a second figure to a piece...... I know these are elementary problems to most of you here, and I apologize for the questions. But I would appreciate anyone who has the time and patience to kinda help me thru these early stages. Its frustrating to me to have these visions in my head of what I want to do and not be able to implement them. Anyone who is interested in helping, please e-mail me at packman9810@aol.com Thanks for listening to my whining!!! Packman

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DAZ (www.daz3d.com) also has some good tutorials in the Arcana section of their site (just follow the links to Arcana from the main page). To get clothing to follow the figures, you need to conform them to the figure that wears them. With the clothing item selected, select "Figure" and "Conform to..." from the menu bar. In the drop down menu that appears, select the figure you want the clothes to conform to and they will follow the movements. Also, be sure to use clothing intended for the figure in question. To get props to follow the figure, parent them to the body part in question (e.g. a gun to the right hand). You can parent by selecting "Set figure parent..." from the figure menu and then select the appropriate body part in the list that appears. Some props will parent automatically when loaded (so called "smart props") if the creator has made them in such a way. To install new conent, you canusually just unzip the zip file into the Poser4runtime folder. Most content creators include the path in the zip file, so all file should drop into the right places and you will find the items in the library in Poser. But... Some creators might use a file structure different from yours (or not to your liking). I usually move the files manually into the runtime folder to get my own structure on things. That requires knowledge about the Poser file conventions: which file types that go where. But it's not hard to grasp once you looked into it, there is a good tutorial about it in DAZ's Arcana site ("Understanding Poser files"). Adding a second figure (The most common question around here... Poser is not user friendly in this department!): Select the figure you want to add in the library and click the "double check" icon further down. This means "add figure". Clicking the "single check" icon means "replace figure". As does (and this is the weird part) double clicking on the figure. Welcome to Poser and happy posing :-)