Hi - despite having used Poser for nearly a year now and having learned stacks of skills and techniques, I still consider myself a newbie - especially when I see the kind of questions all over these forums! Most of it goes straight over my head :o

So, a couple of character/pose questions if I may:

I'm using Poser 11 (not Pro) and am working with V4 models with the Morph++ packs.

When I create a character, I try to think of the morphs/dials in 3 categories: i) 'Character Base dials' for defining the basic person - facial features, muscle, body/limb length and scales etc. etc. ii) Pose dials' - for limb / hands positions, facial expressions during a story etc. iii) 'Combi dials' - such as brow height, muscle flex - Pose dials that may have a 'non-zero' default position (such as a brow-squeeze or high eyebrow - so they can still be used for expressions but don't 'reset to zero' when the pose or expression is finished)

I generally keep a written note of all of the Character Base and Combi dials so that I can reset the character (particularly useful if they've been doing something that involves a lot of dramatic posing or facial expressions!). Alternatively, I could just load the original character from the library again.

Is there a way to create or set a 'Master Setting' dial to return ALL of the dials to a character default so I don't have to dials everything back to neutral?

Also, related to this, when I load a pose from my saved poses library, if my character already has raised arms for example (i.e. ArmsUp-Down or ArmFrontBack etc.) then it will keep this setting and ADD the posed setting to it - in other words, the new pose adds its own values and I often get massively weird arm-positions. The only way out of this is if I reset my character to a 'V4 Neutral' pose before I load the library pose. Is there a better way of doing this or, better still, a better way of saving poses in the first place?

Sorry if I'm being a bit daft here but it's what us noobs do... :) :)

Thanks for your help!

RSK