There are other issues about P5 materials that won't apply in P4. Poser 4 only has diffuse color, ambient color, highlight color, and reflection color/map (in addition to the bump map, that is). Poser 5 has secondary ambients and reflections, etc etc etc., and tons more options for them.

What I usually do is provide the bump map in JPG format, because BUM files are ridiculously too large to zip and distribute. As for applying the bump map, I would rather NOT apply the jpg but give instructions in the readme for how to do so. The reason for this is so that P4 won't get lost in limbo by looking for a BUM file that isn't there.

Message edited on: 10/30/2004 09:14