ockham, no, it's not transparency. The eyes, for instance, have no transparency applied, nor does her head. If I go closer with the camera she looks a whoe lot better. It's as if the 'resolution' in terms of axis units is severely limited. nerd - it's an NVidia GeForce4 Ti4600, highly stable. Fairly recent drivers, about 2 months old. Win2K. :] Fish