hello everyone, i'm completely new to poser and have only been using it for a month tops, so far haven't had to many problems that  in the end i couldn't figure out.

but with this skirt i can't get it to act right, it has this "crosses" at the bottom that i have no idea how to work them, it maintains the original shape instead comforming to the body, what can i do?

i'm using poser 7, i did the conform to... for the figure, i added parent and checked the inherit parent bends

i'm out of ideas on what to do so i thought the experts could help :)

thank you

The crosses are called "body handles". If you click on one you will find that you can drag it and use it to pose the skirt. The skirt will not automatically move with the figure's pose; you have to pose it by hand. Do not mess about with parenting the skirt ; just conform it, pose the figure, then use the handles (and any morphs) to pose the skirt. (I'm not quite sure what effect trying to conform AND parent the skirt will have- could be messy!).

  You will find that virtually all conforming skirts and dresses use body handles of some form, though the symbols representing them vary. Look for a piece of detached geometry below the clothing.  Once selected you can also move them using the dials.

Before P5 introduced dynamic cloth it was the only way to create a skirt.

thanks, i tried moving those handles around but the actual skirt didn't move,, but i could see sort of a "trim" but it did nothing, i tried the "wheels" and some did do something for the skirt others again no actual visual effect

this thing is driving me nuts, i hope i can get it to work, if not i better start looking for a similar skirt :( atleast until i learn how to properly use those kind of clothes.

Some of these items have the control dials under "Hip" rather than "body"

You can use the handles to pose as starfish42 says but sometimes it's easier to use the dials and it gives you more control!

Blue - if you can't make the skirt move either by dragging the body handles or by turning the dials then it sounds like your scene has corrupted. Try deconforming the skirt (select "none" from the list) and  then reconforming it to the figure. If that doesn't work you may have to start your scene again.
  I've just had a play with the Vandra skirt -the handles are called "Lefthandle, Right handle, Backhandle and Loinhandle" If you select any one of those you should get 3 dials - all seem to work for me.

Not sure what you mean by a trim: the Vandra skirt can look a little strange in preview, as you can't see the "inside" of the cloth, only the outer surface. The whole thing shows when you render.

thanks for the help. i'll give it a shot tomorrow morning and see were i went wrong.

is there a way that i could convert that kind of clothing into the a dynamic version without the handles? they are much easyer to work with.

There is. See this tutorial: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=868

Also, if you can't see the skirt in preview, change the setting for the skirt from shaded to wireframe, it should show then!
Chabging just the skirt doesn't change the rest of your scene!