is there any way to attatch a new body part in place of an old one? I know you can do it with props. for example, if I want to make a mermaid using the poser dolphin tail, how can I replace the human legs with the tail? (and get rid of the dolphin's upper body) the same applies with putting feet in place of hands, or making siamese twins. hey! someone make a posable Cerberus and Chimera!! :) Anyway, thanks alot

You can do a few different things. Traveller has a tutorial at Morph World that apparently explains how to make a separate figure that only has certain body parts (just the arms, for example). This can be parented to the original figure, creating interesting effects. You can create a new .obj for a new figure, and either hack the .cr2, or create a new .cr2 using the PHI method outlined in the P4 manual, or using the Hierarchy Editor in P4. If the final form of the new figure will closely mimic the layout of the original, you can make extensive use of the "replace body part with prop" feature to create a new figure. There should be bunches of tutorials for these procedures. Check the Tutorials section here at Renderosity.

heya; actually, a lot of the combo-figures are made by turning the irrelevant body parts invisible (ie: human legs, dolphin head), and then parenting the visible parts together. (ie: dolphin hip to human hip....) but that's the quickie way. ;)

Mona- Ideally, you could use the method Cage mentioned that is in the Poser manual, but I wonder if anyone has actually done that for something as complicated as a mermaid- Poser doesn't actually do what it supposed to do, and some of the joints come out backward. What most people do is what Cage mentioned, create the geometry for an new object file, then hack one of the existing Poser .CR2 files to use the new object, that way all the joints are all ready set up, you then modify what you need to adapt it to the new geometry.

Yeah, those joint parameters can be torture. Ooh.

Cage- Talking about joint parameters, I wonder if anyone else has noticed some of the joints are backward in the P4 Nude Womans hands, which is why the last joint doesn't scale in X (her toes might be backward too, as they don't scale either, now that I think about it). If you compare them to the male nude you will see what I mean.