Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Changing materials on multiple pieces at once?

taerin opened this issue on Mar 07, 2003 ยท 7 posts


taerin posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 5:54 PM

Hey all - is there an easy way to change the material on more than one piece at a time? Example - a hair figure with 20 parts. Must I select each, one at a time, and choose a new material, or is there a way to apply a new material to all pieces simultaneously? TIA, - taerin


Crescent posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 6:09 PM

P4 pr P5? For P5: In the Material Room, you can click on the arrow on the right side of the Material screen and do Select All. Then select Apply to All. (I'm not at my Poser Computer right now, so the names might be slightly off.) This usually changes all the parts at once. (It can be a bit flakey for me.) For P4: Is there a MAT file for the hair? If so, you can open up the MAT file in a text editing program and change the texture references. (E.g. do a find/replace on hair-black.jpg to change it to hair-red.jpg.) Save the MAT file under a new name. Go back into Poser and use the new MAT file (it will have Mr. Shruggy as the thumbnail) and all the parts will change color at once. You can always go and create a thumbnail iamge for the MAT file later. Hope this helps, Cres


SamTherapy posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 6:10 PM

MAT poses will do it for you. If you're wanting to start from scratch, you will have to create your own. Once it's done, though, you wil lsave a lot of time.

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SamTherapy posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 6:11 PM

Haha, cross post. :)

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raven posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 6:53 PM

In P4 you should be able to tick the box that says 'apply texture to all' and that should do it too. The only problem is if the different parts use different maps, they would have to be applied seperately.



Crescent posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 6:56 PM

raven - duh! I forgot about that checkmark. I always end up leaving it on and goobering something else up, so I avoid it like the plague. But if you're smarter than I am(not too hard to accomplish) and remember to unclick the box after you make the change, it works well. Thanks for the reminder.


taerin posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 7:03 PM

Thanks guys - that's exactly the information I needed. I'm using ProPack, btw. - taerin