Quote - I've got one more question: when you first rig your shoes and go back to the pose room to zero them in the joint editor before trying the first conform - do you zero the body only? Or the hip too. I zeroed the hip before and alas, my rig is f*d...lol. I'm thinking I'm not supposed to zero that. So, it's another do-over, but at least I know what I've got to correct for these shoes anyway.

When you do Joint Editor -> Zero Figure, it zeroes all bends for the whole figure everywhere.  It does NOT change any translation values (these must be zeroed manually, typically only at hip and BODY).  Be aware there may be some rubbish stored by "Memorize Figure" coming from the donor rig including bends or translation values, that should be cleaned out also.  After you get the figure properly zeroed, do Edit menu -> Memorize -> Figure.  This records initialization values for bends, translations etc that will be activated when the figure is conformed (I think, it's something I avoid using).

Joint Editor -> Zero Figure does not act the same when you're in the Setup room, I noticed what you're talking about a long time ago and never did it again (it broke my rig).  Unless this has been changed, only use Zero Figure in the Pose room.

There was something else that I thought was fairly important to tell you but it's slipping my mind. :(

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