How many of you parent a character to a character in Poser, and in what circumstances?

One of my big multi-character conglomerations was: with me, a scuba diver is usually made of at least 5 characters: man, breathing set, weight belt, fin, fin; plus a conformer (his wetsuit hood). 6 of them in (and therefore parented to) a RIB boat = at least 31 characters including the boat.

If they cant be conformers the parenting works well. My use is usually two machines where interchangable units are used, Like a front-endloader and changable buckets and forks.

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 thats not true it can. Hair are sometimes conforming characters right? well some of them dont work for the character BUT if smart proped to the characters head. works the same way i done it 100s of times without glitching

I've made a figure the parent of another figure many times, I'm surprised SM told you this can't be done.  A figure can have anything that appears in the hierarchy as its parent, including a light or a camera or any body part of another figure.

I do this all the time for my centaur figures. I parent V4 to the neck1 bodypart of the horse, works fine for me and allows me to move around and pose the horse together with the human body part.

I sometimes do sci fi horror stuff where I'll have a monster try to grab or eat a person.  I parent the person figure to the monster part I need, such as the hand, or the head.  I do this often. 

The main trouble I have with this sometimes is if I already have a hair figure conformed to the person, such as V4 or M4, and then parent person to the monster, it causes a bug where the person will not move correctly with the monster.  It will act like it is frozen in place.

The solution is very simple, just delete the hair figure, then re-conform it person.

Good luck,