I've modelled this daisy, - and have filled the center area with little hollow cylinders. (see pic of model). No matter how I work on it in UV mapper Pro, I can't seem to make them take the yellow color that I assign them to in Poser. Do I have to map them in a different way (mapped spherical), or is it the shape of the little "tubes" that is the problem?? Thanks! Britt

OK... :) Figured it out... it was the hollow shape. Britt

I only have the demo version UP mapper Pro but I've already discovered that if you load a model where some materials have a uv mapping and some don't then you can't map the ones that don't without re-mapping the ones that do. For me personally, that's a big drawback. I don't know if that's what's happening in your case, but it might be. In general, cylindrical mappings are best for tubes, but I find getting the cylinder in the right place is pretty near impossible in UV mapper. I can't see how the shape of the tubes would be the problem. They should work just like anything else. In short: dunno.

Ajax: if it is materials, you probably should map them all as well as you can, just in case. However, you do not need to apply a texture to every material. You can use Poser colors with no texture. You may not do this within a material, unless, the material is defined by more than one group. If it is, you can subdivide a material by group and apply a different, or no texture to it. It is not a matter of having fewer options. Britt: I don't know which modeler you are using, but if it is a vertex modeler, you can pre-map a 2D version of a petal, open it in the modeler and fold it into shape. Do the same for a cylinder - but put a cap on it. (If you don't want it rounded, do not weld, just give the two matching points the identical location - text entry placement.) The map that UVMapper draws will have a lot of connecting lines if you weld the seams, but I don't think it will affect the real mapping. Any other repeating units can be premapped the same way. What you get is the texture - in effect tiled. So you get hi res with a small map. Placing the maps and naming the groups takes practice, especially in RDS, since it does not keep materials, only groups.

Jaager! That is the smartest thing I've seen this far today! Thanks! Britt running back to UV mapper