Hey, DarkEdge, thanks for your response!

Its true that in my example, I could have used a hand pose, but I'm not just concerned about that example.  I want to be able to load a partial pose in general without creating key frames for all of the actors/parameters that were not posed.  If you can't do this, then it seems like poses are useless when you are doing animation.  You are forced to do everything by hand.  This would be very disappointing to me, because the thing that I love about Poser is how modular it is.  Being able to save a pose for use later is so great and would be very helpful in animation, but not so much if loading that pose puts keyframes in for every body part and parameter every time.  When keyframing my animation, I want to be able to load a preset arm or leg position and only create keyframes for those parameters that changed with the pose.

I did some more thorough testing, and did verify that loading a partial pose does not override the current value of a parameter that is not included in the pose.  It just creates a keyframe with the current value.

Can anyone tell me if this is just how Poser works, or am I doing something wrong?

At the risk of sounding whiny, I just can't imaging a circumstance under which this would be desired behavior.

Thanks again,

-digitani

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