Many of the unusual aspects of Poser 4 can be tricky. It took me a very long time to accept transmaps. I was just determined to post-render instead. However, I've gotten accustomed to them. You can do a search here in the Tutorials section. I know that there is at least 1 magnet tutorial. MAT files are a pain in the ass to create. There's a freestuff program called MAT pose edit that may help you out and a python script or two if I'm not mistaken. Wouldn't it be nice to have a plugin to export an object or character as a mat pose (with checkbox options) :/ There's a morph squeeze freestuff program as well. You have to run it in compatibility mode if you're using windows 2000/xp.

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