Thanks for the link, StevieG!

Wow, that whole "MAT-in-the-Poses-library" thing is WAY easier than applying the texture to each individual body part in the Material Room. Why the hell would that not be in any manual anywhere?

Thank you everyone for the feedback. I can see I'll have a lot to learn...

Now that I'm home again, I have a (kind-of) related question, about applying textures.

Reading through Practical Poser 6, it says that in order to apply a material to a figure's body, I should first go to the Material Room and select the SkinBody material group. However, V3 appears to not have this material group. Her body is made up of a bunch of different groups.

Yet, the downloaded texture files - when loaded into the Texture Manager - are a full-body map. So, is this gonna work if I use the entire full body map as the material assigned to, say, V3's SkinFeet or SkinNipples or whatever?

Or am I going about this completely wrong?

I'm sorry to bother you fine people with these questions, but the documentation that comes with Poser is really starting to look inadequate, and even Practical Poser 6 - which I purchased as a supposedly fantastic resource - seems to leave a lot of basic information unsaid.

Thanks for any help. I really do appreciate it.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions and help! I'm at work right now but I will be sure to futz around some more when I have time at home.

Poser is occasionally frustrating, but it's nice to have a place to come and ask questions.

Oh - I didn't realize that V3 was "textureless" out-of-the-box, as it were. Thank you very much!

I've downloaded a free texture, applied it to her, and run the Unimesh Kit, and - although I still get the same list of errors - it seems to work. At least, at the first run-through, I've got a noticeable difference in V3's head and chest.

Is that list of errors meaningless, or is there something that I'm still missing?

Well, I'm glad to have provided a puzzler for everyone again.

I suppose. It would be nicer if Poser just did what I want it to...

@ lesbentley : LOL! Thanks for the only time I've smiled while trying to troubleshoot some Poser weirdness.

@ ockham: Thank you for seconding Fazzel's motion. I will be sure to play around with the Hither/Yon settings if/when the issue rears its ugly mutant head again.

Thank you, Fazzel: if it occurs again I will give it a try. Right now, I've just started over from the last time I saved a backup (unfortunately quite a while ago). I'm not sure why the camera's settings would have changed on their own if that's the solution, but then none of my recent issues with Poser make much sense. I appreciate the suggestion.

No ideas, huh? Me neither.

I guess what I'm slowly learning about Poser 6 is to save backups, and save them often, because you never know when it's going to take on a mind of its own and get all wacky on you.

EUREKA!

Thank you raven: you have saved my project! I still have no idea why the Main Camera was being such a pain in the arse, mind you, so some day I'll probably still need to figure this out, but using the Face Camera works just fine!

thank you thank you thank you

If anyone has any insight as to why the Main Camera woud alter the angle of the render depending on it's Focal Length (and in an entirely different way than the way the image is affected in the Preview window) I'm still all ears.

But thank you for the suggestion, raven! A more than adequate "band aid".

Thank you for all of your suggestions today, raven.

As it happens, I do already have the camera pointed to the figure's head - I found it helpful while positioning the camera to have it always pointed at her head. I just confirmed that it is still set up that way, and it is, and I am still getting her rendered off to the right of the screen (despite the fact that she appears in the centre of the Preview screen.

Are there any other possible fixes? Am I the only one that Poser has ever picked on in this way?