There are all sorts of Python scripts listing things like content in a scene blah blah (see e.g. the Scripts > Print Info menu in P8).

Is there a script that will print material settings? a bit more complex, I suppose....

Did you want all the settings for all the nodes in all the materials ? 
that gets really big :(

Yeah, I know. :) Ideally, though, I could specify to have the settings shown for just one material.

What exactly do you need it for?
In what format do you need the information?

How would it differ from just saving the material then opening the file in a text editor?

Heehee. Never thought of that. I'll do that and see what it looks like.

I want it, because I tinkered and tinkered with settings that were originally based on the AO version of VSS. I didn't think of saving the VSS prop rather than an MC on the figure, so it got detached. It's a convoluted story, but ultimately, what it boils down to is that I want to re-create a very close approximation of what I've got with a new iteration of the non-AO version of VSS, so I need to have a good look at the info that I can print out. Too easy to get lost with a visual method of comparing on the monitor, and anyway I don't have dual monitors at the moment.

K, thats not to hard to do at all, probably take longer to make it pretty :) 

There is ALL in the list of materials , which will list all materials,. Selecting a material will list only it.
Materials are from selected figure only at this stage. Requires Poser 7 for the dialog. 

Wow, that's awesome! Thank you so much!!

working on making it go to a formatted file rather than print, mainly cause I cant see how to print in python. :(    

Is that close to what you wanted?  I have added the node that connects to a parameter, so the inputs will show what node is attached.

I will post the completed script tomorrow .

Thanks so much for your work on this. I just printed it off (7 pages).

The ability to print directly isn't all that crucial, as it's no trouble to copy and paste into a new doc.

Nice work!

yer welcome . thats actually a pretty simple script. :)

This prompts for what material you want , or ALL, and then prompts for the location and name of the save file. The heading is wrong on the save file screen but no way to change it .

The file is formatted text , and should view and print correctly from Wordpad.

Wow. Thanks again!