:o) When you Render a picture, it's like taking a photo of it. Literally it means to draw. Think of the person in Poser as a live model and you standing with a camera (with some obvious exceptiosn...) Once you've taken a picture and the model moves, you'll have to take another picture to capture THAT situation - make a change to the character and you'll have to render again. A transparency map is something that is .. transparent.. Like the lenscovering, it adds shine to the eye like a layer of glass. Poser shows transparent things with the little dots. Also a lot of the hair you can download looks "dotty" untill you render it. Render is something you ideally only do ONCE, when you've finished setting up the whole scene. Sometimes a shadow will fall in a bad way so you will need to move the light and render again. But there's no need to render over and over and over again. You will notice that shadows won't show before the picture is rendered. The "shadow" you see in preview is more a placement guide. It does NOT render. So, both danes and everyone else have to put up with the "mesh goggles" untill the picture is ready to be rendered. I hope this made at least a little sense? I feel I'm rambeling L

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