I thought I read here that you can use the MAT's for V3 on V2. However, when I try applying a V3 character addon MAT (no body or head injection, just the skin MAT), it only applies itself to the head, and even then sometimes it's not aligned IE: eye makeup shadowing on the cheek. But for some reason none of the V3 MATs apply themselves to the body.

Nope, can't use V3 mats on V2 and can't use V2 mats on V3. Entirely different mapping scheme. Take a look at a V3 and a V2 map in a imaging program. You'll see how different they are. I think DAZ has a program that will convert one to the other though. However V3, M3, David, Stephanie Petite, Luke, Laura and the new kids mats are all interchangaable. We were dicussing that a while back.

The V3 to V2 figure now takes V2 maps (I believe you used to have to remap her yourself - can't remember, I did it a while ago). V3's skin materials are more numerous than V2's, and many are named differently, which is why nothing shows up on the body.

I think DAZ has a program that will convert one
to the other though

The UTC (Universal Texture Converter), if I remember correctly.

I'm not sure if they are still available, but DAZ did produce two uvs files that would remap the main Victoria 3 file to take V2 textures - one version retianed V3 material zones, the other switched to V2 zones as well. You need(ed) UVMapper (Classic is fine) to aply the new mapping, and had to make a copy of the Victoria 3 CR2 to point to the remapped object.

The Universal Texture Converter works really well though - I'd highly recommend it.

Gah....I'm not at all interested in investing in yet another program to do Poser stuff :( There are far too many programs out there that do specialized tasks. I can't keep up with it all. I'm having trouble enough trying to figure out Poser.

Quote - The V3 to V2 figure now takes V2 maps (I believe you used to have to remap her yourself - can't remember, I did it a while ago). V3's skin materials are more numerous than V2's, and many are named differently, which is why nothing shows up on the body.

It is V3 to V2. I didn't try rendering an image. I was just going by what I saw in the Pose window. I had applied a MAT that had a darker skin tone, and it was showing on the head, but not the body. I then tried other ones and saw the same thing. I'll try rendering and see if it looks different after a render.

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If you're using V3 to V2, you'll need to use a V2 compatible map. Although it will look different when you render, it won't look any better. :/

Oh well, I guess I'll stick with V3 and use "The Tailor" to get V2 clothing to V3 like I was doing. I was just getting tired of doing that. I have never used V2 before, or V3 to V2. I have it, but still haven't tried it, but does PhilC's program help with getting V2 clothing to fit V3? wishes someone would create one program that did multiple tasks

The problem with one program to do mulitple task include: 1. It would be a lot more expensive. 2. It would be a lot bigger 3. It would be even more prone to errors and crashes. Not everyone wants the same thing. It's better to have a bunch of little programs that do only certain things so that the people that are interested can use them and the people that aren't don't have to tie up their machine with something they don't want.