I've made a prop, made a mat group for it and assigned a material. Then I tinkered with it in a text editor, to make that material the main one instead of the default "Preview" material Poser assigns to the prop when it's created, I tried two ways: 1. deleting the "material Preview" entirely, and 2. placing it AFTER the code of my material. Both worked. The prop loaded with the proper material appearing in the viewport, as well as the Material Room. BUT after removing embedded geometry (I followed this tutorial: http://www.cocs.com/poser/props2.htm) the Preview material is overriding mine. When I load the prop, in the Material Room it still shows my material selected and above the Preview material in the drop down menu, but it's not displayed. Instead the prop appears to have the Preview material. I actually downloaded a free Poser prop to experiment on, removed the embedded geometry using the same tutorial and it worked like a charm, the materials stayed the same. I guess I must be doing something wrong with the grouping tool, but I don't know what. Can anyone point me to a solution? Or help me find a good tutorial showing me how to handle the material groups?

This is not a new poser user question. I'm moving this to the main poser group where you may have better luck with the answer.

donnena posted at 10:17PM Sat, 12 September 2015 - #4227957

This is not a new poser user question. I'm moving this to the main poser group where you may have better luck with the answer.

Thank you. :)

The way Poser saves the prop is terrible with all the embedded geometry. However, I noticed that after you remove embedded geometry, Poser will save it without the embedded information. What I would do is save the prop out again with the materials you want in the preview material zone cause you can't delete it as far as I can tell. Not sure it will work like you want, but it's worth a try. I personally remove the geometry from the file first and then tweak my materials. Hope it helps.

You can delete the preview material if there is a line in the OBJ file titled usemtl Preview (search/find usemtl Preview, select, delete), deleting the material Preview within the .pp2 will cause the prop to load invisible, It's necessary for poser. Best to set up your materials in an external modeler, Load the OBJ in poser, save as prop, edit the resulting .pp2 in a text editor, delete embedded geometry, and add reference to folder Geometries which will contain your original OBJ. I never set up materials with the grouping tool.