I am clueless about the advanced functions in P7 but I did find the strength dial and it was set at 100. What I did was loaded a standard P7 figure and deleted it from the stage after checking the dial settings and that was how I found the strength settings, which I then used as reference for other elements loaded in the stage. Evrything else loaded fine w/o having to mess with the dial....except some of elements like the two mentioned here.

It reall has me flumoxed because there are other elements of the figure(s) in the stage that texture fine and some, like the two mentioned above that absolutely do not.  :(