Les, you mentioned above actor versus prop - what is the purpose of using actor box_1 as opposed to using prop box_1 ? Reason I ask, is I have been using prop box_1 in my poses and they seem to work (at least so long as the figure remains figure 1 or whatever the :1 would indicate). Does using actor make it so that the pose will work on any figure loaded that the item is parented to? If not, is there a way to make a pose file so that I can have more than one instance of the figure and prop in the same scene, and use the pose files with smartparent command to parent the prop to the correctly selected figure. Hope I am making sense on what I am asking.