Sorry I wrote that to fast lets see if I can explain better.........say you built the lamp in max and didn't put any textures on it then used it in poser it would be one color.......then lets say you applied 3 materials m1 m2 and m3 then exported it poser would read this file as having 3 materials but you couldn't apply a texture (well not easily anyway) ..........but if you applied 3 materials in max and they contained textures and you had them set up just right in max when you imported them in poser they would texture just the same.......its not posers fault its the modeler not setting up the model correctley.....don't flame me :o) I've done it myself many a time LOL