Quote - What do you mean by "for both Mike and Vicky"?  In your step 3 above you indicated that the old Poser materials for Michael 4 were gone -- replaced by SkinVue materials.  The only materials which should be highlighted in the WorldBrowser Material tab for Vicky should be only for Vicky.  There should now only be one 2_SkinHead material for example.

That's just it.  I seem to have a completely different list of materials for the two objects.  When I click on Mike, there are 52 materials, with his renamed.  But when I click on Vicky, the original list of 84 materials reappears, with the original material names for both Mike and Vicky.  Vue's material list is definitely getting confused somewhere along the line.

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This is bizzare.  I just ran exactly the same test with an M4 and V4 character combined in a single Poser file and it worked perfectly - M4 had all of its maps and V4 had all of its maps.  What version of Vue are you using?  I'm on Vue7 Infinite build 39290 with XP64.  I'm wondering if there is something strange about your Poser file that could be causing some type of cross-talk.

I'm running Vue7 Complete 7.21-04 Build 39389 at the moment, on Vista 64.  But as I'd noted originally, I got the exact same results in Vue6 Infinite as well.  I've tried a couple of different scenes with M4 and V4 and it doesn't appear to be specific to this scene.

I do have a dual boot setup with the Windows 7 beta.  I guess I could try installing Poser and Vue 7 there to see if it repeats in a different OS config.