When manually swapping maps in the material room, is there a way to apply a map to all the parts it goes on at the same time, instead of having to repeat it for all the parts? I don't know how to copy and paste a path either (in a way that works) so I'm having to navigate to the folder each time. :(

Normally for purchased items you apply textures via the Pose folder while in the pose room. You can create a sub folder in your poses for a set of favorites you've created for a particular outfit and save copies there. In Poser there's also the material folder which if it's an item you purchased you could see that the vendor put the textures there to load. If you are using a product that is just a material set that are purchased you pretty much can do that from the materials folder but have to pick and apply every piece. Sorry if this isn't worded very well... To save a set of favorites, have a scene with only the clothing (or item). Make your changes via the materials (or material nodes room). Pick your sub folder (I call mine Mine, then a sub folder for the particular item) in the Pose folder. Add the item to your Pose folder via the + library button.

Actually with Snarly's EZmat you can. In the texture manager tab you can have an external file open with the textures you want to swap ... and it will apply to all like numbered texture zones. So ... basically you only switch out four maps for diffuse ... and you can set it up for specular, bump and displacement as well (although at this point I haven't found that necessary.). Even if you can't use EZmat for some things in Poser 11 (if that is what you have) you can use this feature.

You can get EZmat: HERE

This has saved me hours of frustration.

Thanks!

you don't need anything but Poser to do what I think you want to do. Texture the figure the way you want then save the material as a material collection in the mats library and it will save all the material zones into one pre-set that you can recall.

Kazam561 posted at 4:05PM Thu, 05 January 2017 - #4294361

Normally for purchased items you apply textures via the Pose folder while in the pose room. You can create a sub folder in your poses for a set of favorites you've created for a particular outfit and save copies there. In Poser there's also the material folder which if it's an item you purchased you could see that the vendor put the textures there to load. If you are using a product that is just a material set that are purchased you pretty much can do that from the materials folder but have to pick and apply every piece. Sorry if this isn't worded very well... To save a set of favorites, have a scene with only the clothing (or item). Make your changes via the materials (or material nodes room). Pick your sub folder (I call mine Mine, then a sub folder for the particular item) in the Pose folder. Add the item to your Pose folder via the + library button.

Nope. That's the old way, not much used now. Or rather, shouldn't be used now, since the Material Room will do all of that and more. A Material Collection is what you'd need to save as. Avoid using the Pose folder for materials.

Thanks Sam, Ghostship2 and Boni. :)

On a side note EzMat is totally free and very much worth downloading and using.

ghostship2 posted at 1:08PM Thu, 05 January 2017 - #4294406

you don't need anything but Poser to do what I think you want to do. Texture the figure the way you want then save the material as a material collection in the mats library and it will save all the material zones into one pre-set that you can recall.

I was asking about getting the textures onto the figure in the first place. I know how to save them once they're on. Have been editing some textures and every time I make an updated draft I have to swap them out and see how it looks. Sounds like EZMat will do it.