prob a real dumb question, but i've just got poser4 today (not telling the wife how much it was though :) she thinks it was about 40 quid, if only she knew) anyway getting back to the question i want to have to figures ones a male throughing a child in the air, but in poser when i create the 2nd charcter the first 1 vanashes :( please help, in the mean time its back to the manaul.....ouch :(

Keep reading in the manual. If you haven't gotten there already you soon will. Go to the Library Palette (Palette on right side). Select Figures Pick a particular Figure. Notice that at the bottom of the palette four buttons appear. The one second from the left is the create new figure button. Click on that button and there you go. Now about concealing the truth from your wife...

Try add new figure in poser it works every time.

or you could do it really easily and import poser document and load another poser figure. also click the double check mark in the library and a new one will appear.

Yeah, it sounds as though you were double clicking on the picture, which will cause the new figure to replace the current one. Although you should get a dialog box with replacement options first, but that might be something the patch put in there-- I can't remember. --Mike

Also use the transition dial on top to move your figures side by side

Oh yeah, that's become simply habit for me, that I forgot, but if you have, asy the P4 Nude woman loaded in there, and you want to add another one, the second will load exactly on top of the first, assuming you haven't moved the first one at all. you still have two characters in there, but it appears to be only one. So you have to move the first slightly before loading the second. Wel, you don't HAVE to, ut it makes it easier. --Mike

thanks ever so much everyone for your help :) it was greatly appreciated. Got to that part of the manual too, but u lot r easier to understand lol cheers jase