So I decided to play with Poser 6's nodes.

So far so good, I'm getting the hang of it nicely...

And looking at the tricks I can make with displacement maps and the "blender" node, to separate "parts" of my material with something similar to an alpha map, I had this lovely idea to make a mix-and-match set for those nice clothes out there. Like, have people change the color and "metalic-y-ness" of trims and embroidered details in a MAT pose and the fabric around it in another.

Then I open my full MAT pose in notepad, trying the trick I used to do in Poser 4, if you want to change just the bump, delete the channels for diffuse color, highlights and such; the same idea should work with the nodes, right? So I just delete the nodes I don't want the MAT pose to change, like if I'm making the MAT for the fabric, I delete the nodes that would change trims and embroidery...

But then I test it. Poser DELETES the nodes, even if I had already applied them with a "load-this-first" pose. If it's not in the latest pose file I loaded, it disappears.

... Any idea on how I could make these "partial nodes" work?

Thanks in advance!

You can't do partial MAT poses with nodes, it's all or nothing.

You have to use a script, one that just does a specific manipulation, or something like ShaderSpider that is generic.

Thank you for the answer!

Do you know of a script that can do this? Would my customer need the script too?

And if I use Shader Spider, would my customers need to have it too?

Attached Link: http://www.poseworks.com/shaderspider/

There's a "ShaderSpiderLE" which can be downloaded for free and used to apply partial shaders created with the full version of ShaderSpider, see attached link for the information.

Thank you very much! I'll check that!