Stewer, thanks for the tips. Are you the Stew who did that amazing rat fur over at DAZ? That's truly stunning. I see what you mean about the render settings...but I still think Koz's hair looks better. :-) In particular, the edges of the dynamic hair still look like vinyl Barbie hair: along the hair line, and the hair ends. I guess it's just too thin. More hair would probably fix it...but getting enough to look like real hair would really bog the render down, I suspect, especially if you used juiced-up render settings. OTOH, with dynamic hair you can get a truly unique look. The main drawback to Koz's hair is that it looks so great, works so great, and is free, so everyone uses it - and so it's awfully recognizable.