Yeah actually that's the site that had the tutorial I followed to get things setup in the first place. When you mentioned the "hair transparency recipe" I think I finally understood what you've been saying. Yeah, that part's no problem, I just meant tedious in reference to having to change the trans map for figures with different hair if you have more than one (me bein kinda impatient and all). It's not a big deal really and it actually doesn't take me that long to do. Just being an ungrateful user and wishing there was a built in converter/plug-in so I didn't ahve to do any work. :) Re: Grouper and Babel, I can't use either since I'm on a Mac. But that's OK, it's something I've gotten used to. No biggie though, I'm slowly starting to get the hang of it and things are (again, slowly) starting to click. LOL, eventually I might even know what I'm doing! :)