Quote - ...The only way you can claim to know it is not running would be if you have moved shader dials, but confirmed that nothing is changing in the material room. Have you done that. Most people don't even know how to get the parameters up while in the material room.

Go into the mat room.
Select one of the skin zones so you can see the skin in the preview of the root node.
Use the Window menu to display the parameters window.
Change the "Skin 2 Blend" parameter from 0 to 1. If parmatic is running, the mat room will refresh and you'll see the black skin. If something is wrong, you won't.

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If you're still convinced that parmatic is not running, open the parmaticUpdater.py file. Change the line that says verbose = 0 to verbose = 1. Then run the script and leave the Python window open. Then move a dial. If it says "Parmatic Callback" (or similar - it's not in front of me) then the callback is working and something else is wrong.

What version of Poser? What SR?

Here I am again.  I've switched to a Xeon Mac Pro.  Does your shader work on Mac?

If so, here's my latest message I'm getting when I try to run the updater:

================= Parmatic Updater 2.0 =================
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Poser 7/Runtime/Python/parmatic/parmaticUpdater.py", line 21, in ?
    from parmatic import ParmaticActor
ImportError: No module named parmatic

I'm sure this has been covered before but I don't have time to investigate.

All that I've quoted above, I've tried and I get negative results.

Help, again!