Following a hint in this forum, I have just visited
http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/lucky/472/happyworldlanduncut/index.htm
and noticed that there are incredible amounts of textures out there.

Being a Poser newbie in most respects, I ask myself how more experienced Poser users ever stay in control of their textures! I see myself having some dozen jpg files in one directory and trying to figure out which one I wanted...

Somewhere I've read that there is a nice feature called a MAT file which applies only the changes one wants to make. Is there a way I could create a MAT file by myself, which only applies a texture to my poser model? With the hints from SnowSultans second tutorial for Poser beginners I could generate RSRs myself.

My idea is to have a library of MAT files, all with nice icons, which allow me to preview the look of the texture and apply it with one or two mouse clicks.

Is this possible?

If yes, I would greatly appreciate your help!

frank-b-

Have a look in the freestuff, there are MAT pose makers in there that will do as you ask.

Attached Link: http://www.silverleifstudios.com/MATTut.htm

Here's a link to a good tutorial that explains everything about making MATs (thanks Silverleif Studio). There's a MAT maker in Freestuff called Mat Pose Edit. Do a search here and you'll find it. To make icons, you can either use Yarp's P3dO Explorer, also free, and invaluable for seeing your poser libraries as thumbnails. Or you can do a render of the subject in the poser document window and add it to Cameras as a file. This creates a file in 2 halves. The camera file, called 'yourname.cm2', and a thumbnail, called 'yourname.rsr'. Simply delete the .cm2 half of the file it creates, and rename the .rsr to match the name of your MAT file. Hope that's not too complicated. mac

control- whats control- never heard of it- Muhahahahaha

Wow - thanks, Mclean,

I think that is exactly what I've been looking for! Now that I have a description of the file format, I just can't wait to write some nice little Perl script to do some work for me. :-)

But I've also downloaded the tools you mentioned and am just trying to figure things out!

Regards,
frank-b-

No problem. MAT making is a common subject in this forum, so if you have problems you can either ask, or do a forum search for MAT. You'd be amazed at the info you find. mac