How does oen go about creating a MAT pose? I just finished a character that I want to start over with but I am too lazy to reapply all the textures.

Well, to start with, acquire MAT Pose Edit (here in freestuff). It is an incredible aid. Then, hunt down mercytoo's tutorial on using it (there's a copy at DAZ3D). Should get ya going no problem :)

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hee hee Hi Karen!

Would be nice if MAT Pose Edit 3 has support for Poser 5's materials, but otherwise it is a nice piece of software. Another way to make a MAT pose is to simply copy the material lines out of the object (cr2, hr2, pp2, whatever2) and paste it into a new file. Add the "figure" lines up top and version number and you're pretty much done.

Well I am using Poser 5 so could you go into greater explanation as how to copy the "material lines". My issue is that I replaced a bodypart with a prop long ago and now I wanto to undo it.

----snip-----
{

version
{
number 5
}
actor $CURRENT
{
material SkinBody
{
KdColor 0.984314 0.784314 0.713726 1
KaColor 0 0 0 1
KsColor 0 0 0 1
TextureColor...
----snip----

That's what the beginning should look like.
Since you are using Poser 5, then this will be more than adequate. The "actor $CURRENT" line is special, allows you to materialize anything with that material name with that material. So it doesn't have to be figure-specific.
And as I said, just copy/paste the material section from the character/prop/hair or whatever file and put it into a .pz2 file, store it in your Poses folder and double-click it in Poser to activate.

Message edited on: 07/11/2004 19:15

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You're a life saver. For the life of me I was trying to remember who posted the script.