There are all sorts of little tricks with Poser 5 shader trees. 1: You can distort the various 2D and 3D patterns available by adjusting the U and V scales. Stripes? Use a rescaled tile or brick node. 2: Tire treads on vehicles. The weave node, with asymmetric scaling, can be used as a tire tread displacement map for a background vehicle. Also, transparency maps: 1: Apply the transmap to the specular colour input as well as the transparency input. Black is invisible, and no reflections. 2: Poser 5 on Windows will read a PNG; it's much better than a JPEG for storing a greyscale, such as a transmap -- good compression and no artefacts at edges.