Thanks - So the prop parenting via poses in DS is a definite no-go then. (Tried using one of my prop goto poses on a properly loaded smartprop to swap hands - even that doesn't work, parenting doesn't change).

Hmmm... if the parenting in my prop gotos is working in Poser by good luck rather than by design, then I shouldn't rely on it. But I'm loath to scrap them completely since they do seem to work just as I wanted in Poser 6. They definitely parent the prop correctly to the currently selected figure. If the currently selected figure doesn't have a rHand/lHand body part, then Poser seems to run through the figures in the scene in the order they were loaded and parent it to the first match it finds. Note: since the translations/orientations for each pose are for a specific hand of a specific character in its zero pose, the prop will only look right if the correct pose/figure-hand-zeropose combination is used.

Still, I already have a Python script that does the job for Poser, so maybe scrapping the prop goto poses and writing a DS-specific script as well is the way to go. Seems like I'm definitely going to have to get to grips with this DS scripting!

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