Apologies if anyone else has pointed this out or queried it. It looks to me like the MT5 files held in the libraries:materials folders will replace MATPose files. Its slightly perverse that this library only appears when you are in the Materials room, it makes saving a good thumbnail a two stage process. If for example you want to save a series of clothing textures for a particular clothing item_ save the textures to a named texture library_ you'll get a thumbnail of the jpg texture map (not much use)_ exit to the pose room and then render a 91x91 png thumbnail and save it to the material folder you created, with the same name as the texture png it corresponds with. You now have a nice material preset with the old style MATPose format without clogging up your Pose folders.

Sorry I should have said: "clothing item_ save the textures to a name MATERIAL library_ you'll..."

I think MAT poses still have their uses. P5 Materials are applied to one material at a time.

I don't think that mt5 format will replace the mat pose for one thing the mt5 is just one texture, a mat pose loads all the different textures for your whole figure.

Yep your quite right Jeff_ I was thinking primarily for models that have a single UV mapped texture. I suppose with the new directory structure its no big deal to create a division high up in the Pose folders as MAT Poses. The set up of the libraries is going to take some careful consideration to try and avoid the library hell I currently have!!

Material folder can be accessed in the pose room by using the drop down menu.

That poses an interesting question: if the MT5 files only apply the material settings to one material within an object, can a MAT file somehow be used to apply an MT5 file to multiple materials at one time? Better yet, can a MAT file (or some other type of file) be used to apply several MT5 files to one figure?

Anything can be hacked I guess :-)

I would think that if the material settings from the material room are now saved in the cr2 file then a new P5-only MAT file would be possible. I wonder why Curious labs didn't just make a new category just for Mat files. Maybe even give it a "mat" extension. Naw... It would be way to easy to just select the figure and save all of the material settings.