Quote - mrsparky said: Figures are things WITH moving/working parts.

Props are things WITHOUT moving parts.

Figures need rigging - kinda like a invisible skeleton.

Props don't.

For rigging and other tutorials... http://www.cocs.com/poser/index.htm Poser 5 is more than adequate to create content. What works in Poser 5 will work fine in other versions.

Thanks, that at last answers a question I've often wondered about for many many years (just what the difference between props and figure is), the naming is so counter intuitive - since in normal speech a figure is something with bones and flesh, or something that looks like that - a human or a manequin, or a dog or a dinosaur - and a prop has always meant something that actors use on stage - aka a thing, whether that be a table or a telephone that appears to ring. 

Poser would have to be confusing about this... lol.

So thanks for the clarification.

 

Thank you all so much, you've all been very helpful - I very much appreciate it.

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