thanks ynsaen. i've come to realize that in the short time i've been using it. i had a little success with what i was trying to do. i loaded the head as a wavefront obj. scaled it down to fit the body (v3) shrunk vicky's head and replaced the body part (head) with the object. after closing the program i re-opened it and the new pose i'd saved was there but only gave me a v3 pose. i did however save what i'd done as a pz3 file and when i opened it everything was there. i just had to replace the head with the obj again. it works on most of the poses. a couple leave gaps but its better than nothing lol. all i need now is the know how to texture the skin on the head so it matches. i think the problem with the gaps is that face gen doesn't have a movable kneck. once again thank for the feedback billy