Addendum: .... "then went to the cloth room and started a new simululation. Clothified the dress. Set the collisions up. Went back to the pose room and set my key frame and then my pose. Went back to the cloth room and ran the simulation." .... Suggestion: (that's the wrong order for workflow purposes..) Load figure. Go to frame whatever and pose. Set keyframe (if it's for a static shot, it's probably best to enter the anim. editor and "break spline" at this point, to avoid overshoot problems). Return to frame 1. Load clothing. Enter cloth room. Set up everything you think you'll need. But before you run the sim, SAVE!! I cannot stress this step enough. It'll save you hours of time in the long run.... Then run the sim.... (If it fails, then all you have to do is exit Poser (to free up memory), re-start Poser, load the saved file and you're ready to go.. You can change the pose (if it's causing problems). You can got straight to the cloth room (and all your settings will still be there) and alter any settings you want... Cheers, Diolma