you can easily use the same hair transparency recipe, even if its for a different hair prop, and simply change the transparency and texture maps, and then resave to the library under a different name. I save subparts of the shader for these purposes to the library so I can drag and drop them in. It really doesn't take that long... it takes longer for me in poser to do it in fact... as I have to go in and do the trans by hand... no drag and drop. my gallery is full of Carrara 2.1 renders... I just got version 3 here and am beginning to play with it. Its really really really really nice... what I see so far.