Dan, I have no "immediate" material room goals other than to learn what all that stuff in each "mini window" means and is used for. I want to be able to change the colours of things like hair or clothing or shoes and currently I can't do. I ultimately want to make my own textures and I need to know the material room and what all that stuff in there means and does. I'm sick of playing Barbie dress up. I spent what I consider to be a fortune on a program that I probably know less than 1% of what that program can do and it's just come to a point where I want to learn some of the other stuff. Pete, you might also consider explaining what the list of terms in the poser surface window and the various node windows means, and why you are "plugging" into those instead of something else.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi