Especially when two figures are scaled differently, it becomes increasingly difficult to pose the smaller figure, as only a few of the body parts can be selected - or even worse, the entire body CANNOT be selected, meaning I have to move the hip to get the figure around... :-P Shouldn't there be some kind of sub-program or dialogue box built into Poser 3 so that one can highlight which object one wants to manipulate??? Below the main window, you can choose which figure you want to work on, but the body part (just to the right of that) is not selectable. Am I missing something...?

heya; well, that ain't right. if you click on the bottom tab thingy where it says figure 1/figure 2, etc, you can pick which figure you want, obviously. next to that, click and hold to get a pop up list of what you can grab. including cameras (pretty useless), props, THE body, and at the top should be body parts, which will fly open in a list if you click on it. all the parts should be there. you may have to scroll down to get them all. you may have one of two other problems. when there is a figure near the edge of the view window where your tools are, you may not be able to select the other figure, then click and drag the position tool, for example, to move it. it will think you are clicking on the other figure, even though you are clicking outside the window. (this may also happen with the lower edge lists, if a figure is out the bottom of the screen.) if the two figures are different, a man and a cat, say, they might get confused as to who has what body parts. the cat may decide it has fingers and toes and collars and such, and/or the man may decide he has tail1, tail2, etc. i usually try to grab body parts with the position tool. the part's outline should highlight as you move the tool over it. try to click when the one you really want is lit up :/ otherwise, the list is the best way to go. you can also hide one or more figures in your scene to make them invisible. or lock figures, so you can't select them. (even though they still highlight when you put the cursor over them.)

Thanks, bloodsong! I downloaded the 3.1 patch a little while ago, and hadn't tried the body part select since a while before that. It appears to be working now, plus imported objects retain their color schemes instead of being all one color. This should make it a lot easier to work with the program...! - Voluminous