Quote - It is no trade secret, a child can deform the parent but not the grand parent. You'll hear me say that in the first joint parameter video.

The hierarchy of the V3 legs is:-

hip > buttocks > thighs

Bending the thighs affects the buttocks it will never affect the hip unless you have Poser 9/Pro 2012 when you can add those elements into the deformation.

I figured as much, but the problem is that when I bend the thigh of V3, the buttock doesn't follow. And yet everybody from Mytilus to a few other tutorials has told me to add all the polygons of the skirt to the Hip group.

Mytilus and Pretty3D have their skirts setup this way. They have the entire skirt selected as one single Hip group, and with two bones for each thigh. When the V3 thigh is bent, twisted or moved side-to-side, the entire skirt follows.

I've tried to do everything the same way, but it still won't work. Even Mytilus himself can't figure out what my problem is.

Is there a possibility my Poser installation is bugged? I have Poser Pro 2012 64-bit.