I have Poser 3. In the Poser 3 Businessman and Casual Man the bottom ends of his trousers are treated as parts of his feet. As a result, when I want to remove the Casual Man's feet (and toes) and replace them by my "heavy boots" prop as if he is doing some proper work and not merely being casual, the bottom ends of his trousers vanish also. That is a nuisance. I know that his trouser bottoms must conform with his feet as his ankles bend, but can't that need be satisfied some other way? so his trousers stay all as part of his legs. Otherwise I must leave the model's feet on, and I find it a tedious fiddle placing and sizing the boots exactly so they swallow his existing shoes without looking too big.

I did this a year or so ago. And you will find that there are other problem that will happen here. The first is that the boot uppers actually are part of the lower leg. So you pretty much have to hack the hell out of the figure anyway. The boots end up having to be cut into three pieces (Boots, feet, lower leg) in a program anyway, otherwise they flex wrong. So I don't think you are going to get a clean prop-replace solution. If you blouse the pants into the boots it takes care of a lot of problems with having the cloth and leather overlap cleanly. The last part is then hand editing the final obj to put the materials back in. This is a lot of fun (NOT!) Or you can use the perl utilities I built to do that. Kevin

My heavy boots prop is in the Poser Fun Stuff. They go just above the ankle bones like army boots and not right up the shin like jackboots or women's kinky boots. They are one piece each; I find little need to swivel model's the ankle joint about - a movement which is rather restricted in real life when I am wearing heavy work boots.

heya; if you have ray dream or whatever, you can grab the shin portion of the pants and drag it down and tuck it in (if you want) as a morph target. then, when you delete the feet (and bottom of the pants), just apply the morph. seems the simplest way, so far. :)

Hmm, you must be thinking of a different army than I was in. US Combat boots go to almost mid-calf.