I have been looking at Craig Burton's tremendous demonstrations of the PPP (I hope that Curious Labs has or is considering compensating him for those - http://clabs.3dprotagonist.com/). While watching the demos of the Setup Room Basics and Setup Room Primitive Figure a question came to mind. Could the PPP be used to easily merge two figures together? For example let's say I am placing a running shoe on Vicki's foot. Could I use PPP to combine her foot and the shoe so that they become one? If so then when I click in the foot/shoe region I would always get the part I want to pose (foot). In addition, would that help me to reduce the final figure footprint because the foot and shoe would become one? If I did it with other articles of clothing (skirt, blouse, hair) would that be benificial?

if you have another program carrrar ray dream etc you could put it all toghether in poser then export it as one bring it back in as a group and bone it i would imagine but not for sure

No, I don't think what you're describing can be done with the PPP. Even if someone figures out a way that it can, it's still easier the way we do it now with Compose and UVmapper.

I wasn't aware that this could be done using Compose and UVmapper. Could you provide a basic overview of how this could be done using these programs? I'll download them in the morning and start exploring.

Well, when I combine a figure with it's clothing sometimes parts of the nude figure must be cut away so it doesn't poke through. I use UVmapper for this. I select the section of mesh I want to get rid of and assign it to a group called "Junk". In compose I delete the "Junk" group and import the clothing figure in on top the nude figure. That way they are combined. I edit the OBJ references in the figure CR2 to point to my new combined OBJ and with a few adjustments it's ready to go. There's alot more to this, but that's the quick version.