??? I know I'm missing something here, arrgh. I save a pose to the library, but when I apply it to a figure, none of the body/hip transforms are applied. That is, the pose is saved, but not the figure's position.

Are you positioning the figure by BODY or HIP? If you use BODY, your figure will load back in the centre of the studio, with the hip at the default position. Always use HIP if you need to save the figure's position in the Poser studio.

PS. Why do you keep posting the same question over and over?

Because the forum wasn't displaying them. There was a loooong delay and then they all just showed up. Thanks for the answer, I wish I'd known this earlier.

Okey dokey. :) The forum can be painfully slow at times. You're welcome, by the way.

Well, I didn't know it was the forum bogging down, or I'd have waited. My browser kept timing out and I didn't think the posts were going through. I'll be more careful in the future, no need to spam the board all to hell and back :).

If you have a Python enabled version of Poser, you can save body translation info by using my PoseSave script (available on my renderosity artist page). In most cases it's actually a lot better to leave the hip translation dials alone and use body translation instead - as long as you have a way to save the body translations to the pose.

Why is it better?

Suppose somebody decides they want to rotate the figure to face south instead of north after applying your pose. If you've positioned it by using the hip, it won't rotate on the spot, instead it will rotate around the place where the figure would be if you hadn't translated the hip, so the figure winds up moving to a completely different part of Poser space. Very irriating. They can try to get around it by rotating the hip instead of the body, but if you've bent the hip or rotated it sideways (either of which you'd probably do to some extent in most poses) then it won't y-rotate around the vertical. Instead it rotates around the local y axis of the hip. So it winds up being a major exercise just for the user to get the figure to face a different direction.

Okay that makes sense. Thanks Ajax.