P5 will be great for draping something on someone. I'm sure it can be used also to pull off the drape again, but that is beyond my animation skills. Something with a contrained group and parenting, I'm sure, but... I've never encountered that "animation file writing group" you mentioned, i've amde multiple (smaller) animations with P5 with no problems. As far as I know there is no easter egg in Poser 5, neither gui or hair or anything else.. i'd love to be proven wrong on that one though. Why do you hate the dials? Oh and make sure to install SP4.01. Does wonders for P5's stability.

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