Is there a way to select no editing tool. I use the mouse pointer to click on a body part to quickly bring up the parameter and properties controls. With any of the editing tools selected, I often screw up my pose by accidently moving a body part. This was a problem in poser 4 also. Is there a better way to quickly select body parts??

If you accidentally move a body part, you can unmove it by immediately selecting Undo from the Edit menu (or use the hotkey CTRL-Z). You can also select body parts from the pull-down menu underneath the document window.

heyas; i use the translate tool, that seems to wreak the least havoc. you have to practice clicking quickly while remaining perfectly still. ;) why don't you just hit ctrl-i to bring up the properties and parameters? you can select body parts via the dropdown list, which has now moved to the top of the parameters palette. (well, been copied to there; its in both locations). you can also use the cursor keys to go up and down the hierarchy, if the body part you want to switch to is nearby.

btw: back in p4, you could switch to the poser 2 interface (po2). back in the old days, you couldn't pose anything unless you were in pose mode, so not being in pose mode was handy for when you wanted to be grabbing things but not moving them. (also the posing controls worked better, as i recall. made sense as to dragging along or across the body part axis whereby you could control the direction of the rotation.) those days are gone, though, in p5.

...just a thought: When ready posing, why not choose "object -> lock actor" after selecting "body" from the panel just below the posing window? It would protect the actor (in this case, the whole body) from being re-posed. Willy