I've never seen a thread on this and it only happened with one hair model by 3Dream (Aether Hair). The hair model rendered fine way back in Poser 7, but starting with Poser 8, I got something very strange happening. Load the hair to figure. Everything looks fine. Render. Looks okay. Go into the material room to change the hair color map and boom, the weirdness has begun! Poser suddenly is displaying the Color Map in the place of the transmap even though clearly the name in the node is for the transparency map. And if you render again, it will render using the color map in the place of the trans map. Which made the hair utterly useless to me bacause I do not know what is causing this to happen. So, it just wasn't a hair I could use anymore. A shame, because I really liked Aether Hair. Well, I bought Historical Curls a year ago from DAZ on a sale. I thought I would try it out and see if I needed to make a new color map for it. I need the wavy hair for a male character in illustrations for my friend's novel. The same texture weirdness is taking place with this hair model as well. I am posting a screen shot from the material room. This is what it looks like after rendering once, the color map is now displaying in the place of the transmap but the name for the transmap is still there in the node!!! How can this be fixed??? Is there a messed up texture reference in the hr2?

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Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8