Yep, the caterpillar IS blue, Lewis Carroll said so, get used to it, LOL. He's not going to stay warty, though. I actually used the preset texture called "Hooka Smoking Caterpillar" then changed the color- it was sort of a private joke. All the textures so far are temporary, once I get all the models in, I'm planning on spending a lot of time tweaking textures. As far as smoothing the clothes: they were smoother-looking at one point. The dress looked like a bell, very flat. Very unnatural. I went back into Wings at that point and randomized the points so that it resembled cloth more, and then smoothed it. Which made a very large number of polys, but the result imported well into Bryce and renders OK in terms of how much render time is needed. Please believe me if I were to smooth it more in Wings, it would be too many polys (Wings was already slowing down to a crawl). I have already smoothed the clothes once inside Bryce, as well. Translation: the clothes are as good as they're going to get, I'm not willing to spend any more time remodelling. 6 hours is a lot of time. And they look very good to me. :^) Sorry, but I don't see the "clay" thing at all. Now the clothing that came with Poser4, THAT looks like clay to me. :^) Bryster, the sky is plain because I'll be adding smoke later, and I think any clouds might interfere with that visually. I may change my mind once the smoke is in place. Thanks to all for the feedback! John

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