well if this board doens't give you a happy try these instead: www.rendervisions.com www.uvmapper.com www.3dhaven.com Renaming materials (parts) technically possible in poser via the grouping tool, but its annoying. If you want to just use poser shaders (materials) and no maps then this is the easiest solution: open your model in uvmapper. remap or not, it doesn't matter. Select by material, assign each to your new material name 'Metal', 'guns' 'windows' whatever. when you are done reassigning, SAVE the object. Import the NEW object into poser, and your list o material zones should shrink. Note: to see the changes in uvmapper you will need to reopen the object to make sure the old (now unused) zones are gone. and now you know the real reason not many people uvmap mechas :P