I'm having just a bit of difficulty grasping how to combine figures to create a new figure. Suppose I wanted to put a lion's head on a horse, or make a centaur, or a two-headed camel! I import two poser figures, and try to re-arrange parts from both figures in the hierarchy editor - but if I drag anything from one figure to the other, Poser hangs. Any clues on what I'm doing wrong?

I've only played with this a little bit myself, but I think you need to position the two models how you want them in the document window, then in the hierarchy editor you make the parts you don't want in the figure "hidden" (turn the "eye" off), and save as a new figure. THen you move parts of the new figure around to create the proper hierarchies and IK chains, then use Create New Figure on it. I think. So far I've had it claim to work, but then saved things that were no-where near what I wanted, so I'm probably missing a step myself!

I'd love to see a good tutorial for this myself. I know at least one's out there.

OK, here we go again.... 1) Get the figure(s) just how you want them (two heads, six arms whatever) 2) save it all as a PZ3 3) Rename the PZ3 to CR2 4) Open the new CR2 in CR2Editor, (in the free section) and edit out everything, lights etc, that is not part of the figure(s) 5) Save it somewher in your poser libraries and then open poser again 6) Open up the relevant library and load the new CR2, it'll be just a grey shrugging thing at the moment. 7) Now save it again with a different name. Pay attention to this bit!!! 8) You should now have a brand new set of CR2 and RSR files. Delete the NEW CR2. 9) Rename the RSR file to the same name (not extention) as the original shrugging grey thing CR2. 10) Now open up poser and you will a thumbnail in the library as well as a fully combined figure. If you are using windows and have trouble renaming the extentions try doing it in a DOS window. Have fun, and check out the characters I made in freestuff, they were all done this way.

heya; as a side note: there is a utility on the freestuff called... pz3tocr2, i believe, that will do step 4 automatically for you.

Hey, thanks! No wonder I couldn't figure it out - that's definitely not in the manual! But I can understand that procedure being a little bit outside the normal Metacreations "supported stuff". - Nathan

Oops - I went to the utilities section of "Poser Free Stuff" on this web site - I assume that's where you were referring to - but I see neither CR2Editor, nor pz3tocr2. Where should I be looking?

I found it a the Props Guild (see resources list) in the 'Downloads/utilities' section.

Dan Wilmes uility will stip a PZ3 made in Poser 3 fairly completely, but using Poser 4 generated files (in my hands), it just changes the extension from pz3 to cr2. All of the text is still in the cr2 file. It removes the information re: lights/cameras in the header section, but leaves the channels data in the file as well as the doc data at the end. Its Ok if you don't mind the file size. If you are more ambitious, check out Mason's tutorial in the Tutorial section here. Jaager

The CR2Editor is in freestuff - utilites under the name of Poser Library File Editor. (why?)

heya; thanks jaager, didnt know that. btw, anybody know a utility that'll strip a p4 cr2 and make it a p3(3.01) cr2? i could use one :/ pd: because cr2editor is a poser library file editor? :: ;) thats the description, does the title say cr2edit or anything?

When you unzip the actual program inside the zip is called CR2Edit.exe (or something like, it't definately not Poser Library Editor.exe), nevermine, just me being picky.