I have Poser 3. I found how to set joint axes in a model to be in some other direction than along the coordinate xyz axes; the rotation is set by 3 parameter dials in the bottom part of the Joint Parameters window. But those dials acted strangely, and wherever I clicked or dragged the value either kept going down or kept going up, and there was no way to get a dialog box to type the value in instead, and in the end I had to put the values in by text-editing the .CR2 file.

I think there are alot of bugs in the joint editor. Great Idea to do it by hand. -JH.