Thanks, I'll try the crease angle setting! I still think of it as a bug, though- as Cliff said, the default should be compatable with previous versions of Poser. "The mesh-splits don't define where or how the mesh bends (with the exception of how children affect thier parents). Only the joint-parameters and/or fall-off zones do. Yep, exactly, but due to the way children bend their parents it does make a difference in this part. The way I do mtching JCM is it run the body morph to 1.0 (manually) and make a matching morph in the clothing, either with magnets or by exporting the figure to match it in Max. I then plug the clothing morph into the JCM channel which the clothing already has (as I start with the figure JCM) It is the only sure-fire way I've found, but the bending itself must be exactly the same.