Haven't used Poser in years but when I did, the procedure you mentioned of just putting the Poser exported obj into a folder with that meshes image textures worked fine for me (even when they had multiple textures). Of course each image texture needed to be tweaked in Bryce's Mat Lab, but still.

Nowadays...I don't know. But, when you do import an obj into Bryce (7.x), it going to ask you how you want to import it;

"OBJ Import" -  'Material', 'Obj group' or 'Obj group material'

So, you will want to try each of those three options, see if it gives you any better map placement.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Since Daz Studio has been free for years and is far better at bringing its meshes right into Bryce, I haven't used it in ages. But I do understand your preference of Poser, as I still like its GUI much better than Studio's confusing GUI.

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