@Morkonan, Thank you for really READING my post! I went and checked the Geometries folder for each model (3Dream Aether Hair and Neftis Historical Curls), there is no .mlt with the objs, so that is not the problem. I'm thinking it must be in the .hr2 itself. Some sort of texture reference that newer versions of Poser are reading differently than Poser 7 read them. When I load either of the hair models onto a character, they each come in properly with the color map and its transmap in place. I usually then run EZskin on them to set up newer node structure on them (3Dream back in the P7 days loved to use Ambient on hair). I render either one of those hairs once and everything looks fine. I go back to the material room after that first render and the transmap is no longer displayed, instead it's the color map, but the NAME of the transmap is still in the node information. And it will render that way! I have tried several times to rename the transmap, and I've even moved the transmap to a different location in the Textures folder in hopes of fixing this issue, but neither has worked. Poser just starts loading the color map in place of the transmap and that makes both of the hair styles unusable!!! Aether hair was one of my favorites and I can't use it anymore. I need the Historical Curls for a project, and I can't use it. I am hoping someone will read this thread and know what is going wrong here and tell me how to fix it. A long time ago when MAT Poses were new, I was taught to created one by hand. It's been a very long time since I've edited a Poser file in a text editor but I know that I can locate the texture references withing the .hr2, I just don't know what to fix or change in order to fix this problem.

And thanks again for really reading my post!

Unfortunately I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon for X-mas holiday. Maybe someone will have an answer for me when I get back.

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

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Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8