Quote - "One thing that continues to puzzle me, however, is that most MAT's are placed in the "Pose" library?"

iirc Mat files were not "discovered" by the Poser developers, but by a enterprising Poser user who just thought them up on their own! Right ?

IIRC, that's right.  Just like transmapped hair, which was - again IIRC - discovered by Koz.

In terms of MAT poses, what it boils down to is, there are only two types of Poser file:

Those which load geometry

Those which modify geometry in some way

Since poses belong to the "modify geometry" category, they are ideal for this kind of thing.  Then again, so are the Camera, Face, Hand libraries.  In fact, several vendors used to put their MAT poses in Camera.  There's a slight peculiarity with Hand in that only one hand would work properly as a MAT (I think it was the Left).

Back in the good old P4 days, it was common to have the entire category swamped with MAT poses and, due to the good old 256 list limit, ones at the end would disappear.  There wasn't even the facility for extra Runtimes, either.  That was dreamed up by Hogfather with his PBooost utility.

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