i bought the hi res textures for mike 3 and installed them but when i add them in all i get is body color changes or shiney skin tones. i thought these were supposed to be hi res skin textures not just shading changes. am i doing something wrong or do i have to go to a file folder to find these?

Make sure you load the ! M3 Natural Hi PP.pz2 or ! M3 Natural Hi P4.pz2 first. That's the one with the references to textures. The "Skin Default" and "Skin Sheen" etc is just loading specular and stuff

In the material editor, when you look at the texture map list do you see the M3 Hires texture in that list? when you're back in the posing room are you clicked on the last little ball that represents shading with textures? Did you load the texture via a mat pose?

that did it JetM, thank you. does it take a while for it to load on to the figure too? deci6el, it was blank in the material room but got it now, thanks.

Glad it worked :) Depending on your machine, I think it might take awhile. They are high res maps after all. Also, if you've already got figures with maps loaded, you might be hitting your machine's memory ceiling.