Thanks for the ideas.  Not sure how you lock parts of a character.  How do you do that?  It would be great if poser had a feature where you could hold down the shift key when you loaded a pose and it would prevent translation and turning of the hip.  So if your figure was upside down when you loaded the pose, the figure would remain upside down (ie hip stays in place) and the pose moves all the body parts.

Also, does anyone know what you can change in the pZ2 file for existing poses to keep the character from translating or turning.  I have looked at several purchased poses and am about to start experimenting with them to see what works but some knowledge would make the trial and error go faster.

Dan