Thanks guys. I actually was trying to model the sword in wings and then import it into poser. From there I was going to apply a texture to the blade and then to the hilt. For some reason when I had assigned a material to each part in wings it did not make a difference in poser. BUT I found out that when I exported it from wings I had to first make a uv map with the seperate parts. It seems to have worked. I guess that is what I needed.