I tried the Nerd3D tutorial above last night using V2 and their Jessica dress for V2 and a pose from FBz's free Bonanza set and had the second success using the Materials room in a year. And then the comuter exploded and scrambled up the pz file...actually it locked up about half an hour later because I tried to use a RAM cleaner and it doesn't like Poser apparently. I'm going through each of these tutorials during the Thanksgiving break and looking forward to the experience.