I always thought being able to save a set of materials and reload it is a great idea and would have simplified (vue)life by a lot. However I never got it to work. I just tried again both in v6inf and v7comp with no success. The steps I took :

• imported a poser character
• edited all materials and saved, including all textures without compression, then left the material editor. A file was generated on my HD, approx 1.5mb
• edited the material of the torso only and changed it into a plain red color, clicked ok and left the editor. The torso in the preview now looked red.
  -edited all materials again and loaded the saved set of materials. There is no error message or indication anything is wrong. Clicked OK and left the editor.

The torso remained red, NOT replaced by the original texture which should be in the saved material file.

So, Artur, how do you know that saving/reloading the package of materials worked for you? was this in v8? maybe they fixed it now? (there shouldnt have been a difference between v7inf and v7comp in this respect, but maybe it works in v7inf for you?)
Very curious.

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