Help! I can't work out how to do this. The walk path won't move on the Y axis and won't become the child of a prop. I know I must be missing something basic. Essentially, I wan't the figure to run down either a deformed ground plane or a square/flat prop. Can anybody provide me with a solution? Thanks.

Figures walking up stairs or slopes must be keyframe-edited by hand.

Well, you can'rt walk up stairs on a Y axis either. I mean you can but your body always stays upright. What your suggesting would put the figure perpandicular to the path it needs to follow. Zygote(nowDAZ) sells a BVH MoCap CD that BVH's for walking up and down stairs that you can apply to your figures. The draw back is that whoever did the captureing of the file was an idiot. The upstairs file has the figures first stup up being a rather large one. Meaning that its like the figures first step is much higher than any stair would really be. Then from there, all steps are normal. Other than that. Jeff is correct. you will need to incrementally pose the figure with keyframes. The hardest and most aggrevating thing to deal with in Poser is its keyframe editor. I expect that you will not have much success with it. I have been trying to animate using Poser for since Poser 2 and have never been able to do it. There is always something that totally screws up the entire animation. ALWAYS! Definatley NOT teh "Premiere Animation" tool. But it would be nice. JanP

Thanks for all the help. I'm about to animate a 2 minute sequence using Poser. I'll let you know how it goes.