Thanks very much, Snarly, it's very much appreciated. I did download EZMat, but haven't installed it yet due to playing with VSS. I will of course do so but looking at the folder structure it looks like a material generator as well. I think at this point, I had better explain something so that hopefully neither yourself or Ted think I'm on drugs.

There are two aspects to me wanting the specific things I am wanting. One aspect is to simply learn from the node structures, and the other is to make life easier through having a way to synch any node network I come up with, across all skin zones of the figure. This is why I have interest in VSS and EZMat, but no interest in using them in the way they were designed to be used. That's why MATHelper is spot-on, cause from the screenshots it appears to be purely a tool for synchronising and managing materials and material zones. The end goal, is that I learn whatever I can from your's and Ted's skin nodes, so that once I have that knowledge, I can just build my own node networks and use MATHelper to synch them across the figure to make life easier.

That's the best way I can describe it. My apologies though, to those who have been reading this thread. I can imagine it all seems a bit chaotic. Unfortunately, I never did keep up with what was going on with any of these tools in the past, which is why I'm so bloody clueless about them today. The only exposure I had to Poser Python scripts were the built in ones, which of course always worked cause they were already installed, so I never had to deal with any of the peculiarities of third party install until now.

Anyway, I hope that explains some of the scatter-brained craziness you must all be seeing from me