PhilC - thanks. Obvious once you know!

lesbentley - Of course! I knew that! I've used 'actor $CURRENT' for many MAT poses, and the 'pz2 not working unless there's a figure in the scene' rings a bell too (I think I even mentioned it in one of my readmes)

That solves my problem anyway - I'll always have a figure in the scene for the specific goto poses I'm looking at, and with 'actor $CURRENT' the goto poses work fine. (I've just created a new sword prop, with smartprop versions to put it in the left/right hand of Apollo, Antonia, Jessi, James, A3, H3,etc. Hand poses for each character too. I now want to do the same with the scabbard. It struck me that a set of 'Goto A3 Left Hand' type poses would be more general purpose and less work than having a smartprop version of each prop for each hand of every figure. The user would have to parent the prop of course. Also seems a good candidate for a Python script - AskMenu() to select the character, but how do I do the left/right hand buttons?)

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