I'm interested in finding out if there is a utility recommended for use in creating MAT poses for characters. I'd like to be able to use them to simply the process in setting figures up for multipass rendering.

Can anyone recommend a utility? I've done a search on Renderosity and found ones by Hogsoft and Hoagland? Any others? How are these to use?

Thanks in advance.

If you're using Poser 7, simply use the material collections from the material room.

If not, the one made by Hogsoft works fine and there is another one from Netherworks if I remember well.

Another option is my free Poser Python plugin, Matmatic. I don't know exactly what you need to do, but with Matmatic you can write Pythons scripts that actually generate shaders dynamically and write them to individual material files, or mat pose files, or to material collections.

If you have to create dozens of sets of shaders for a figure with numerous variations on individual shader items, but those have to be propagated to many material zones (such as skin shader settings) this is a good way to go.

If, on the other hand, you want to read existing materials from a figure and make a mat pose file, you don't want Matmatic.

Do you actually need "mat pose" files or are you saying you just want to save all the zones together for one-click recall. Because if that's all you want, you should be saving them as a material collection, and this capability is built right into Poser.

Finally, you should be aware that the difference between a material collection and a mat pose file is approximately one line of text, which you can edit any number of ways without having to buy anything. If you really want a mat pose file, you're only a couple extra keystrokes away from that using Poser alone.

Could you provide a download link for Matmatic,bagginsbill?
I could not find it.

Thanks for the help everyone. Material Collections will probably do what I need.

@rjandron, bagginsbill:
Could you provide a download link for Matmatic?

Thanks in advance

Mat pose Edit is free and available in the free stuff here under poser utilities.

Attached Link: Matmatic Beta Offer (RDNA forum thread)

The latest download - as far as I know - is in post 72 of the linked RDNA forum thread. Do take the time to read through the posts to see what you're getting yourself into, since I don't think Matmatic is really the answer to the original query.

Thanks a lot, nyguy and EnglishBob
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