No disrespect intended but I don't think Phil said to make it a figure, nor do I believe in that line of thinking.

You can accomplish much of what you are trying to do with simple joint centers with the Joint Editor. Each part that you want to move will need to be imported as a seperate prop, if you have several parts that are moving as a unit then bring those in as one prop, aquaint yourself with the Hierarchy editor to form parent/child relationships. Then if you want to get real fancy learn how to create ERC code and link this stuff through one dial. ERC can be done with props...I've done it.

I actually showed how I rigged a Avatar copter in Poser that I modeled about a year ago in 3d World.

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