I'm trying to create some conforming clothing.
I exported a stock pair of shorts as .3ds format (i've never been able to get the 3dstudio plug-in to work). I modified the meshs in 3dStudio, exported the elements as seperate .3ds files.
I then loaded the origional clothing item in poser, and imported the .3ds element files, and transposed them exactly over the existing elements, then hit "replace element with prop".
I now have a fully conforming set of shorts, with a new modified mesh, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get a material on the sucker; when I load the newly created .obj file with uvmapst.exe, it tells me I have no .MAP file, which I can understand. Can anyone tell me how to get a material onto this set of shorts?

What you have done looks right. Have you tried running the OBJ through UVMapper?

In uvmapper go to "edit" "new UVMAP" and choose planar. Uvmapper will create one: Save your map and the *-obj-file. Put the obj-file in the corresponding folder.If you choose the same name for the new *.obj file as the old one, delete the rsr file belonging to the obj-file.poser will build a new one.

Attached Link: http://www.vrhome.com/mediaphiles/shorts.pzz

I tried using uvmapper; opened the obj, edit, new, planar; it created a map of the front side of the object only?? I'll include an non-production version of the figure to this post, if someone wants to take a crack at it & tell me how you fixed it, be my guest. I'm relatively certain I could start over from scratch, and make sure i attached mat co-ords in 3dstudio and they would carry over...but I did a BUNCH of stuff, thinking the maps wouldn't be a problem...several days worth, actually.