Michaelab opened this issue on May 27, 2011 · 162 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 09 June 2011 at 12:57 PM
He said prior to poser 5 there was no materials category in the library. The GUI. It answers the question "Why did we ever have materials in the pose category".
The answer to why we still do is vendors who want to make mat presets that work as-is for both Poser and DS, saving them time.
The answer to why some Poser users still prefer mat-poses is because they do not have Poser 8 or better and they like applying materials without having to go into the material room. Since P8+, that problem has been solved. There is no longer any logical reason to use mat-poses except for the fact that vendors prefer to do less work for products that are for DS and Poser, and because some users are never going to upgrade.
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