I really like the Vicki the Barbarian setup. I'd like to setup a series of poses from Schlabber, where Vicki uses the spear. Does anyone have any idea how to get that spear into her hand so that it will work with all the poses I give her? I was able to do a similar thing with Dan Swofford's Madame Masque character. She came with a gun already in her hands.

With Madame Masque, and Schlabber's poses, all I had to do was click on a pose and most of them worked without any tweaking. But Madame Masque came with a gun already in her hand.

place the spear to her hand in the position you want to have him.make the finger look like grasping the spear,select the spear .from menue choose "objekt" and "parent object" choose the right hand(when spear is in the right hand) than the spear will follow the hand( AND DONT HURT ANYONE WITH THAT SPEAR !!! :-))

Sounds simple enough. I will likely try that after I get done painting Vicki's and Mike's bodies. I am involved in another thred that began when I was trying to find pants or leggings for Mike that go with a tunic. It was suggested that I just clothes onto a copy of the texture map.

I ran into a similar problem with my French maid, too, I built her a duster, but how to get her to hold it? What I wound up doing was parenting as thgeisel suggested, but also getting her fingers all adjusted (not a trivial task!) I saved a hand pose. And then I decided to also let her hold the duster like a pencil, so I saved another prop with the different position (the parented props get saved with the position as an offset from the parent) correct for that hold and I saved another hand pose. Now an overall pose can be applied, then the correct duster, then the hand pose, it save a lot of work. I would think a spear should have a tennis racket grip and a spear chucking grip, at least.

Jim,a french maiden with a spearlol thats it!!!

Jim, do you by chance have an illustrated tutorial of the process you described? I guess I have a learning disability, and it's easier for me to understand if I see what you're talking about.

The best way to do a spear is start off with the fist hand pose. Position the spear inside the fist where you want it then adjust the grip if necessary. When done parent the spear to the hand and you got it. I think what Jim was saying is that with a spear you'll probably need two hand poses. One for carrying the spear, arm down, tip foward and one for throwing. Those two actions would require different grips, i.e., for carrying, the knuckles would be out and the thumb-part of the hand toward the tip; for throwing, the knuckles would still be out but the hand is reversed...the pinky is toward the tip. He's saying it'd be easiest to save the prop once for each of these grips. And, of course, save each hand pose, too.

Jackson - exactly! With the duster the "tennis racket" parented prop didn't work right with the "pencil grip", so after I finally got it rotated and repositioned so it would work I just resaved the prop, it was parented to the right hand the whole time (it gets sort of weird in rotations when it is parented, you might want to start with it unparented - to unparent a prop just open it with no figure and resave it, incidently) Hand poses are tough, incidently, all those little parts! I normally start out with the closest hand pose that I can find, and go from there. Oh, and I never understand what I'm doing myself, either, it happens when you get over 50!