Again with my posting on old stuff, heh. But here goes...
Just another way to try it:
When I'm a creating a model in Anim8or I assign my material sections to basic colors (not worrying about what colors I'm actually going to want them in
Poser).
1) After my material sections are set I choose Select>By Material
At the prompt I select what Material I want
2) Then I click Edit>Detach Faces.
I do this one by one until it's been done for all my materials.
3) Now make sure all of the individual sections are appropriately named.
4) Then I select all of the parts/detached materials sections for the model and export it to .OBJ format.
From there I take it into the great lil freebie UVMapper.
1) Now load up your model, and click Edit>Tile>by Group.
At the prompt check the resize groups box and click OK.
This will lay everything out for you (and make more sense of what might have looked like a mess when you first loaded your model).
2) Next click Edit>Select>by Group (this is where the individual section names come into play)
At the prompt choose which item you want to assign a material to first.
3) Next click Edit>Assign>to Material
At the prompt type in a material name, no spaces, no funky characters/symbols.
It will alert you there is no such Material and would you like to create it click Yes.
Here comes the repetitive part if you have a lot of sections... Go thru and repeat the steps 2-3 in UVMapper until all of your groups have been assign a material.
4) Click Edit>Color>by Material (this will colorize each material section for easier texturing later.)
5) Click File>Save Texture Map and save your texture map to where ever you like
6) Click File>Save Model
At the prompt leave selection at default and click OK, navigate to where ever you want to save your file then click Save.
Ta-Da! Now your file should be fine to import into
Poser and from there you can assign it color overlays, highlights, textures, etc.
I really hope this is of help to someone one! Anim8or is a great program I'm happy to promote and help with if I can. If you have any question please feel free to email me. Now that I'm thinking about it I might write a full tutorial with screenshots for this (if it is of use).
Thanks and take care
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