Well, I am slowly getting somewhere.

Using the Devkit V4 is a bit tricky since she has no visible feet (I just had a thought as I typed this that maybe they were there but invisible but nver mind).

This is what i just did:

• Loaded V4 (normal V4, not the dev kit - see above)
• Zeroed her and memorized figure settings and saved into the library as "V4 zeroed"
• Saved her shin and foot and toe as an Obj
• Imported into silo
• Made another box "shoe" to just cover the foot part
• Saved just the box shoe as an obj
• Started Poser and loaded the "V4 zeroed"
• Loaded the box "shoe" to check it was in exactly the correct place (it was)
• Deleted V4 leaving only the box "shoe"
• Went into the Setup room
• Loaded the V4 devlopment kit to donate bones  *** (see later)
• Added the polys to rFoot
• Made the inner sperical falloff zone cover all of the box shoe
• Made the outer sperical fallof zone cover all of the inner zone
• Exited the Setup room
• Memorized the Figure settings
• Saved the shoe to the library
• Made a new scene
• Loaded V4
• Loaded the "shoe"
• Conformed the shoe to V4
• Yaaay! It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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But.
When I flex V4 right foot, the box "shoe" still slightly squishes or stretches (just like my last image #8 above).

I started again, loaded a purchased V4 shoe and moved bent her fooot quite a lot... no deformation of the shoe.

(*** I should mention that at the marked point I tried several times to donate the V4 zeroed that I made but this did not work. At the end, when conforming the finished shoe it would conform in the wrong place (slightly off her foot). I did some tests and I determined that if you load V4, zero her and load her back in and check all her joints they are not quite zero - 0.000123 and similar. This does not happen with the dev kit V4.)

Soooo... if anyone is still following along...

I am nearly there. Better than EVER before (and I have been trying this for months - off and on) but I just need to understand how to stop poser deforming something rigid like a fashion shoe.

Any ideas on this last hurdle please anyone???

I would be,
"Eternally Grateful of the UK"
if anyone could help me for this last bit