*“I really think a proper library (EZSkin and other core materials could all make up this library) where the exposed end - the Simple Material Room bit - could be a few tickboxes that, say for skin, could give you freckles or change the skin tone or add water droplets or-or-or... the interface would "expose" a core library node set that would be instanced by a drop-down selection.”*

The Poser Material Objects (PMO) would be based on one (or more) node groups (MetaNodes)? You would probably have some sort of standard interface for the material objects – name, category, brief description, logo etc. for display in the materials catalog. A PMO could be a simple preset or expose properties for customization. A simple UI editor would be nice, something on the order of the forms editor in Office. I suppose Python could do all of that. Each object would define its UI elements, related properties and methods for driving the underlying node setup. Maybe the PMO’s could be combined in some way ala Vue’s mixed materials or a layer metaphor so one could (simply) add the displacement output of a reptile skin PMO to freckled skin in another PMO with – without getting into node mode.

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