Well thanks but I want to assume that there are some great gurus out there who do understand how to create a material file from a texture. How were the materials files that we have installed in our basic program created. On the subject of applying a texture such as a picture of a baseball to the side of a box. It was very simple in Poser 4 but the manual does not give step by step tutorials to cover the basics. I will search around the tutorials on the web in hopes I can find some answers.....none of the "old timers" seem to know how to answer thse very simple questions....thanks again....