Quote - Partial MATs don't work with nodes, which means they're not compatible with P5, P6, P7 or PPro. A wacro (or some other script) needs to be used to achieve the same affect (which means P5 is much more difficult to work with in this respect, due to the lack of Python access to shader tree nodes).

For what it's worth, I've had problems with nodeless (P4 style) partial MAT poses in P6, although the results aren't consistent. Restarting Poser sometimes makes them work again. I never did get to the bottom of that one, but CL's statement that since they didn't invent MAT poses they didn't have to avoid breaking them did get up my nose a little. > Quote - At some point, you do have to let the past go.

Yes you do - but the point at which you do so is a personal choice. There will always be those who have to have the latest thing no matter what, and there will always be those who will cling on blindly to whatever they last felt comfortable with. Insofar as they don't involve any thinking, both positions are misguided. > Quote - Because anyone supporting 2 different programs and 4 different versions will never get anything completed anymore.

For me, at least, the extra effort in making a few P4 MATs and a BUMp map is very small compared to the effort involved in the rest of a Poser content project. Different authors will have different viewpoints, and that was why Anton was asking for opinions, I think.