Didn't the bump map have to be inverted in Poser4? I thought I read that in a few texturing tutorials, perhaps it's why the myth has been perpetuated. shrug I think a call to the texture tutorial police is in order. Maybe it was just ONE tutorial writer, hellbent on upsetting the whole texture community (and in turn the entire Poser community) from within the system. Under the radar, as it were. What a cunning bugger.