Thanks Les, that fixes it. (I'd noticed that trying to save a prop, parented or not, to the PZ2 library created that duplicate version thing. But it didn't save any any of the rotation/translation data though. My inability to create a prop goto pose this way was the initial reason for this thread)

Thanks to the advice here I'm more than happy now. I've got a set of simple PZ2 goto poses (one per hand per character) that smartparent the prop correctly. I've also got a Python script (run from another PZ2) that lets me select the character and hand and then does the same as the goto poses.

Plenty of testing and fine-tuning of the script and goto poses still to do. Then proper models of the sword and scabbard (my current one's just a very simple placeholder to get the smartproping and hand poses right), some textures, and some sample poses. Then it'll all be up on the Renderosity Freestuff.

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