There used to be something in Freestuff (Ockham's ?) that let you drop figures and props to objects above or below Poser's Ground level.

I've searched high and low and can't find any way of doing this: I'm looking for something more like Vue's system, where it'll drop something onto the next object below it.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I'd check with Ockham first, just to eliminate or confirm that option. I'd think something like that might be in freestuff, under poser utils, but I'm sure you've already been there.

How  many items do you need to drop? What sort of items are they, props or figures? Do they all need to drop to the same level, or to different levels?

There are drop to ground Python scripts, including a couple that come with P6. I have never herd of one that will drop things below the ground plain. However there may be a workaround, depending on exactly what you need to do, so some more details may help.

Have you looked on Ockham's site:

http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/

Also is this for an animation or static render?

Here is Ockham's site, maybe it's there?

http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/

I was convinced it was Ockham, but no sign of it there or here.

I'll be using this for static renders, for example with a figure in the upper storey of a building, standing on something like a dias, things like that.

It's a petty annoyance when I apply a pose, hit Ctrl-D, and the figure drops through the floor. It would be nice, for example, to be able to change the altitude of the Ground plane to where an upstairs floor is, but AFAIK this isn't possible.

To answer lesbentley, it would be nice if it was possible to set multiple planes at user-defined XYZ coordinates in a scene onto which figures and props could be dropped, but this looks completely impossible.

Thanks to all for your replies.

Short of someone writing a py script for this, I don't think there is any way to do what you want, but here are some ideas that might help.

For the poses dropping the figure to the ground problem, that's simple, don't raise the figure by yTran in the hip, use yTran in the Body. Poser does not save pose data for the Body actor, so applying a pose to a figure that has been raised via the Body won't affect its altitude.

If you need to use the "Drop to Floor" feature to compose your scene. Set up all the figures and props for the first floor, but at the Poser GROUND plain level, then load a prop, from its Properties make it invisible, parent all the first floor props, and the figure's Body actors, to the invisible prop, raise the prop to the first floor level. Then repeat the procedure for the second floor props and figures, and so on, finishing with the ground floor.

If you need to use Drop to Floor for the first floor figures, after you have already set up the ground floor, parent all the ground floor figures to a prop then move it to the side, then bring the first floor prop back to ground level. 

Quote - Short of someone writing a py script for this, I don't think there is any way to do what you want.

I have to agree with this having spent a very wet Sunday trying just about everything I can think of, short of python scripting which I know nothing about.

Maybe my time would have been better spent learning Python. Or at least making a start.