Although I set all of their "bounciness" to ZERO
I could not get them to all settle on the plate

for reasons I stated in my previous post( namely lack of a friction setting)

But I still love poser physics for "people tragedies" as it does a better job with character ragdolls  even better than Lightwave, C4D or MAX.

Adding friction should be reasonally easy to do (but will need a coding change).  You can see the ODE implementation details for friction under "Contact" at http://opende.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Manual_(Joint_Types_and_Functions). (see Coulomb friction coefficient).  I'm making some updates to PoserPhysics and will see if this is viable.

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