Howdy, I'm currently in the process of updating one of my products.  

First, I wanted to know if there are any advantages/disadvantages over having my product as a "Figure" over a "Prop".  The model itself will be a structure (wrestling ring) which contains morphs.

Currently, my product is a prop and one of the updates I was considering was converting it to a figure mainly because of the limitations on application of its various texture selections.  I currently use the "Materials Collections" feature in the "Material Room" of Poser 6 & 7 to handle selection/application of the various texturing options I offer for my product. Unfortunately, that means that I would have to create a separate zip file for use in Poser versions lower than 6 in order to  make up for the lack of the "Material Collections" feature of Poser Pro and 5. So rather than go that route again, I would like to try and offer these texturing selections/options in much the way that it's offered with clothing or skin textures (going to Pose Library to select texture), so I can have 1 zip file that will load successfully in all versions of Poser.  To that end, I wanted to know if anyone knew of a good tutorial explaining how to set up texturing options for a figure in the "Pose Library" (IE, setting up in the Pose Library).  I know how to create the texture itself, I simply wanted to know how to set up its application for use in the "Pose Library". 

Alternatively, if there is another texturing option I may be overlooking with regards to keeping it as a Prop without having to use the "Materials Collections" feature to apply the various textures I
offer, I'd welcome that as well.

Thanks in advance for your help.....

-Joe

You can save the materials as either a Material Set (MT5) or Material Collection (MC6)
in the higher version, then turn those files into MAT-pose (PZ2) by simply changing
a couple of lines at the top of the file.

Change the version number to 4 so the user won't get a warning message;

then find 

actor $CURRENT
 
in the MT5 or 

mtlCollection
 
in the MC6, and change either of those lines to

figure

Then save as a PZ2, and put it in a MAT-pose folder.

I opened one of my MC6 files with wordpad, but the line you said I should find ("actor $CURRENT") was no where to be found.  

Would this be the way that MAT-pose files are traditionally created or is this just a way to convert existing MT5/MC6 files to MAT-Pose files?  If its the latter, while I appreciate the suggestion, in addition to what you just suggested, I'd also like to learn the traditional way of actually creating MAT-Pose files.