Quote - Because prior to Poser 5, there was no predesignated location for textures to go, so they ended up in the Pose folder (no, I don't know why, I came late to the Poser party).

Actually, Poser 4 (at least) had a "Textures" folder.  Back then, everyone used to make freebies designed to just have the texture map (usually just one map per item, and fairly small) plunked down directly into that textures folder.  I still have a P4 Runtime somewhere with a heckka messy textures directory.  :lol:

Poser 5 did introduce the Materials Room and the Poser shader system, however.

 

I'm not sure I understand ice-boy's initial question, however, so I can't try to answer that.  :unsure:  What is meant by "materials"?  MAT poses?  Poser shader material files (.mt5)?  Texture maps?

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.