Stewer, thanks for the tips. Are you the Stew who did that amazing rat fur over at DAZ? Yes, that's me. I usually use "stew", but that one was taken when I joined Renderosity. 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. I think the default hair styles that come with Poser use too many vertices per hair - e.g. HMann-M-Mohawk: 5,000 hairs, 28 verts each. If you reduce the number of verts to 7, you can go up to 20,000 hairs and still use the same amount of RAM. For comparison, Sulley in Monsters Inc uses 2.3 million hairs with 10 verts each.