How Copy single materials and paste across multiple materials free ?

Please , can someone tell me how to do this basic action , a function that exists in any program made by a kid but not in "Poser Hiper Pro 2010 2012 2014 " honestly still can not believe it , copy one material at a time, is like a bad joke

someone told to Poser  programmers that the models share the same maps in different areas?

thanks in advance

Some users change the material zones when they do not need twenty copies of the same

Quote - Some users change the material zones when they do not need twenty copies of the same

I do not understand your answer bagginsbill  , but honestly I would like simple answers that do not involve advanced knowledge, perhaps some simple script that someone has written with this "Mega hiper BASIC" function 

spend $ 15 to do this??? and if you got poser  2014 ,  9 dollars more = 24 dollars for a function that existed in windows 3.1 ???

Select All;

Copy;

Select the new zone;

Select All;

Paste;

doesn't work for you?

see att. img.

I made this material for : 2_Skinhead (attach).

ok  now :

how I do to stick it to 2_skinhead, 2_skintorso, 2_nipple 2_skintorso, 2skinhip? (in one step of course , non copy - paste 5 times)

Use the group tool. Assign skin head material to all the other polygons. They do not need to be in different groups.

Use EZMat's ShaderHelper

Quote - Use the group tool. Assign skin head material to all the other polygons. They do not need to be in different groups.

I know the tool group dimly but do not use it often, I'll see how it works but honestly what I look for is something easier simple and direct copy, select multiple areas of materials and apply, do not understand how an application the size of Poser not you can make this simple and easy action

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Use EZMat's ShaderHelper

Ok let me see Snarlygribbly  ,this could be a solution.

I do not understand how would the steps , how I select and copy an area of material (not want anything change) and stick it in the other 5 

is there any tutorial or guide to read how EZMat's work?

Netherwork's Matwriter panel on RuntimeDNA allows you copy settings from one material zone to multiple zones via copy/paste. And yes, this feature is sorely needed in Poser; it becomes obvious when you have to do more than 20 material files for a product.

Edit: and it's currently on sale as well.

Quote - I do not understand how would the steps , how I select and copy an area of material (not want anything change) and stick it in the other 5

Select the material from the drop down list (top right), then tick the material zones in the 'Copy Shader' list to which which you want to copy the shader. Press the Copy button.

Quote - is there any tutorial or guide to read how EZMat's work?

It is being worked on right now ...

Quote - Netherwork's Matwriter panel on RuntimeDNA allows you copy settings from one material zone to multiple zones via copy/paste. And yes, this feature is sorely needed in Poser; it becomes obvious when you have to do more than 20 material files for a product.

Netherwork's Matwriter panel  cost 15 dollars for P2012  and 24 dollars for P2014, I not think paying a single dollar for a function that should be included Native in Poser (and quite expensive I came out the software for not including such a basic thing)

By the way, if you don't want to install a Poser addon, the same functionality is in my free MatHelper script too.

Quote - > Quote - I do not understand how would the steps , how I select and copy an area of material (not want anything change) and stick it in the other 5

Select the material from the drop down list (top right), then tick the material zones in the 'Copy Shader' list to which which you want to copy the shader. Press the Copy button.

Quote - is there any tutorial or guide to read how EZMat's work?

It is being worked on right now ...

Ok Snarlygribbly,  I will downloaded the EZMat and test what you tell me ,if it works well I promise do a mini tutorial to make this basic  action would save us, Poser user, so much time...

Thank you very much to all who have answered my question, are very helpful for me....

Quote - > Quote - Netherwork's Matwriter panel on RuntimeDNA allows you copy settings from one material zone to multiple zones via copy/paste. And yes, this feature is sorely needed in Poser; it becomes obvious when you have to do more than 20 material files for a product.

Netherwork's Matwriter panel  cost 15 dollars for P2012  and 24 dollars for P2014, I not think paying a single dollar for a function that should be included Native in Poser (and quite expensive I came out the software for not including such a basic thing)

I understand your frustration. There are a lot of areas of Poser that could be made much easier. I think it's because of Posers age and the fact it's built on old code. Newer software tends to start with the current best practices and build from there.

I'd love to see the next version of Poser with zero new whiz bang features but an emphasis on stability and integration of many of the free and paid utilities that most of us couldn't live without.

I understand your frustration. There are a lot of areas of Poser that could be made much easier. I think it's because of Posers age and the fact it's built on old code. Newer software tends to start with the current best practices and build from there.

I'd love to see the next version of Poser with zero new whiz bang features but an emphasis on stability and integration of many of the free and paid utilities that most of us couldn't live without.

Yes ,  it's true, you have a good point false1  , but beyond the "old code"  is like that for years from now the people of runtimedna  lost the motivation to continue to improve, last vercions , like you said , came with many features that most of us will not use them ever

The major improvements "useful" came from people outside runtimedna (colorcurvature, Snarlygribbly etc ...)

Perhaps it is time to give the management of the company in the hands of new people with new ideas and push more because the decrease in Poser users in these last years has been big and is a real shame

ShaderWorks sells a Python script in the Utilities2 Vol.4 Materials product - it  opens a window showing the existing textures and allows dropdown click substitution and that hew texture gets applied to all the Materials using it.

It is available at RuntimeDNA and right now is on sale for $2

"I'd love to see the next version of Poser with zero new whiz bang features but an emphasis on stability and integration of many of the free and paid utilities that most of us couldn't live without."

Well they are beta testing a new
"game Development" version
 of poser pro that will export figures/assets to game engines  so they will have include some sort of "bake textures to single map" feature.

it wont be free though.

I've tried it (MatHelper) and it works, thank you very much Snarlygribbly

I tell you how it works if anyone wants to try it

1- We open our old friend V4

click in areas where we want the texture to be copied to modify , and then click "copy"

ps.then I will try to do this from the EZMAT

Quote - 3-then go to the pose tab and with the body of V4 selected  we run the mathelper

click in areas where we want the texture to be copied to modify , and then click "copy"

Note that there is also an option to keep the texture maps. This means that the shader is copied but if it can find a diffuse/tranparency/specular/displacement etc. map in the destination material then it will use that map instead of the one in the source material.

Quote - > Quote - 3-then go to the pose tab and with the body of V4 selected  we run the mathelper

click in areas where we want the texture to be copied to modify , and then click "copy"

Note that there is also an option to keep the texture maps. This means that the shader is copied but if it can find a diffuse/tranparency/specular/displacement etc. map in the destination material then it will use that map instead of the one in the source material.

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Yes , I saw that, like everything you do,  is a very useful tool for me, maybe I confused at first having to leave the material tab and select the body to showing areas of materials , but after you get used.

now i will proves install ezmat and I'll see how it works.

thank you very much for all the help