On the Poser to DS to Bryce issue; There was some intention, in the old days of Metacreation, where Poser and Bryce were to eventually talk to each other...but the implementation never got done due to Meta going bye bye. Poser's Wavefront (.obj file) export isn't quite up to snuff; it leaves out a lot of info from the .mtl file; this is the materials file that holds the information about textures. Originally, you would have to export a Poser scene as a .obj file, import into Bryce, and then manually load and apply the textures, doing any tweaking of the material manually for things like transparency. There are a couple of freeware utility programs (Metal Fixer comes to mind immediately) that corrects most of the problems in the .mtl file, and eases the process a bit. Then DAZ rescued Bryce from Corel. The turbo importer people have mentioned was written to make import work, and since DAZ Studio is intended to be a competitor for Poser (don't ask about that unless you want to get into....religious debate, shall we say?), the importer was tailored more for DS (although Poser could use it if they changed the .obj exporter to match Wavefront's specification). But DS -can- open a Poser .PZ3 file, preserving the material settings. So you can use the Poser to DS to Bryce as a sort of importer kludge. Or you can check out the demo of Vue D'esprit, which imports the Poser PZ3 file natively (and can support animation import, if that's your interest). As for the frustration....welcome to the club, m'dear. CG of any variety is steeped in frustration; it involves a whole new language. And forging new ways to think about what exactly you are doing. There are a ton of tricks out there, usually several tricks to achieve the exact same thing. Experimentation is the price of learning what works for you.It takes time. A lot of it. And there isn't a single person here who wasn't just as much of a beginner at one time as you are. Some of them a lot -more- beginner than you are (frightening thought, eh...? ;) ). But most people her just love to show off their smar....er, help and guide the newbies. Poser's hooked you. You have been assimilated. The asylum =always= has new Velcro patches to attach a newbie to the wall with. One tip. Make sure you have a few gigabytes of hard drive space, then hit the freebie downloads here, at RuntimeDNA, at PoserPros, and digitalbabes2.com, the home of Kozaburo and some of the best transparency mapped hair props on the net (Japan has a thriving Poser community, and the stuff they make is incredible), and plan to spend a few hours downloading. I'm evil, I am........ >:)