You can texture inside of Poser, procedurally inside the material room :)
I guess you mean painted bitmaps :)

Python queries would still be allowed in this forum according to the forum header, because that would fall under (quoted from the header) 'our goal is to create an excellent learning environment for those of us wanting to learn new aspects to make our Poser-including artwork better' part and Python scripts are an aspect of Poser, and therefore so is the learning of them. The forum header doesn't say anything about doing everything inside of Poser (although PhilC's PoserPocketKnife lets you open up a Python pz3edit program so you could write a script inside of Poser!)  :)

Just joshin' with ya JenX! :)