I've been trying to teach myself how to model props and such for Poser. I decided to make a toy mouse for my Millennium cat, thinking it would be a simple project. (Famous last words...) Anyway, after struggling with it all day, I finally got something that looks vaguely mouse-like. (If anyone's wondering, Anim8or is the only program I managed to figure out, at least on my own.)

But I have no clue how to make a texture for it. I tried generating a template with UV Mapper, but it didn't look anything like other templates I've seen. (Probably something to do my clueless modeling.) And how do people do those material zones, that let you put different colors on different parts of the model? Are those something that have to be done while modeling, or are they added later, like texture maps?