Sorry, I must correct you ttheterr, but the user manual is NOT crud. It is excellent. But it is not a training manual, only a REFERENCE manual; it only tells you what each item, room, feature DOES. Since you already admitted "that I have no idea what I'm doing", and your chosen method of learning is posting in this forum high-beginner questions, which obviously we have generously answered, and will continue to answer, please have some respect. Frankly, everyone here is being very civil to you, but objectively you are asking questions that are easily solved by the manual and tutorials. I don't have the Poser5 Manual, or I'd look up the page where it tells you how to do some of the things you are asking. And....on my Poser6 Manual it clearly states "Reference Manual." Did Poser5 come with an "instructional manual" as you post implies? Second, what did you think of the tutorials that came with Poser5? Did you get a lot out of them? ::::: Opera :::::