I find having numerous material zones on a figure is a pest most of the time. What's the easiest way to remove them? With UVMapper, or can it be done in Poser?

Pretty sure it can't be done in either Poser or UVMapper. I wrote a python script to do it a couple of years ago - I ran it thru the blender python interface, so not very distributable. You could certainly do it in Maya. Probably 3ds and xsi too. There is a 30 day free trial of xsi at the moment - maybe download that to do it! I've downloaded the trial, but not yet got deeply enough into it to do this sort of thing.

Not sure which version of UVMapper you have so the commands may not be exact, but if you take the figure into it and use SELECT/SELECT BY (Material) choose the material(s) you want to do away with, Then go into TOOLS/MATERIAL and assign them to the material(s) you want to keep, then resave the figure .obj (I STRONGLY recommend that you save it with a different name!). You'll then need to copy the .cr2 file under POSER/RUNTIME/LIBRARY/CHARACTERS/etc. and rename it, then use a text editor to change the object look up lines to point to your modified .obj file. When you bring the new character into Poser is should only have the material(s) you assigned. Mike

Attached Link: http://www.morphography.uk.vu/cr2material.html

Use the group tool in poser. Call up each section of the figure with the group tool, then select all of the polys for that portion, rename them with one new consistant material.

Thanks guys!

Whoops, Thnaks EnglishBob, I always forget to edit out the material lines until after I re-open the file in Poser and see the mess I left behind... Mike

I'd say UVmapper is the easiest, though you can certainly do it with the Poser group editor. Either way, make sure it's the obj file in the Geometries folder that you work on. If you want to keep a copy of the original version, then save the obj file with a new name, then open your cr2 and edit the two lines that point to the obj file. The deleted materials won't automatically remove themselves from the cr2 file, so you'll need to either just put up with it still listing a bunch of materials that aren't there or remove them yourself with a text editor. I find the easiest way is to load the cr2 in Poser then save it back to the library. This usually puts all of the unused materials at the end of the material list, after the preview material. Then you can get into the cr2 with a text editor and delete one continuous block starting at the material after preview and ending with the last material in the list.

A trick: If you delete all the materials from the cr2 and reload the character poser will load it all in a random color with random highlights,so as not to correct everything to white(witch is in most cases the default color)make this: Load your character Go a the material Preview and make the color white and the highlight black. Open the cr2 with a text editor and delete all the materials at the end of the file except the Preview material! Save Load your charcter in poser and it will only have the materials the obj file carries and all the colors will be white with black highlight (as you set your Preview material) pitklad

is there any way of deleting material zones directly in Poser? I just loaded a material wich had extra material zones and it 'added' this ghost material zones to the prop. Is there any way I can remove them?

Quote - Use the group tool in poser.

Call up each section of the figure with the group tool, then select all of the polys for that portion, rename them with one new consistant material.

Note that this will embed geomCustom references in the file and result in a new figure .obj being written out with a library save.

Quote - is there any way of deleting material zones directly in Poser? I just loaded a material wich had extra material zones and it 'added' this ghost material zones to the prop. Is there any way I can remove them?

You'd need to edit the .cr2/.pp2, or use a script within Poser (assuming one exists) which will alter the file.