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could you clarify what you mean? the materials editor allows you to individually texture eah seperate part of all the models in a document. is that what you are asking?

chapter 11 "Surface materials" in the poser handbook (which you can access within poser 4 by choosing "help")

The problem I guess your having is that after creating a new prop in poser, the texture you are applying in the materials editor isn't being applied! Select the object you want to texture, open the group editor, Select All, for each material group and hit Create UV map. If you haven't created a UV you can't texture it.

Angola, I didn't know you could UV map props from within Poser. I thought that's why we need UV Mapper. And where do I find the group editor? I've been working with Poser for nearly as long as it's been in existence and I don't know what that is. Melanie

The group editor is the icon at the top of the edit screen at the far right end of the row... with what looks like a dotted box in it. Be carefull using it though as you can do more damage than good if you don't watch what you do. The grouping tool is imprecise and a pain to use, but it is extremely useful if you want to re-assign a different texture to an item or part of an item or group of items. Anyway, the best way to figure it out is to play with it, but be careful. :)

Export the prop like .obj format. Use Uv mapper( free in the freestuff), open the esported model from poser in it, create a new Uv mapper, The you have the template of the model.Save the model, save the texture. Now, in any paint aplication, open the texture created in Uv mapper and paint on it. Then import the model saved in Uv mapper to poser and open the texture you have done in the paint aplication. If you want to add a texture to a figure comes with poser, you find the templates of every figure in one of the original 2 cds.

other thing, you can use paint 3d too. It comes with poser. But i think Uv mapper is easier.

Melanie - You don't want to know how long I spent clicking buttons till I figured that one out! And shadowcat, if you ever learned anything by reding the Poser manual, you are a better cat than I.

Angola, I agree about the manual. I call it the "Useless Manual" rather than the User Manual. It's worthless. I've put it away on a shelf somewhere and I can't even find it. I've never gotten anything out of it. Most of what I've learned came from trial and error or from other helpful users like all these folks here. Melanie

Actually I did learn from the book, but the reason I said go to chapter 11 is because the question is so unclear. So maybe if the person glanced at it maybe they will be able to focus in on what exactly the problem is.