"I wouldn't blame anybody, who doesn't make use of all of Poser's capabilities, for not reading the manual. Nobody, who has read the Poser 5 manual, is ever going to master the Material Room without a lot of outside help. The manual barely explains what each node does and does nothing to explain how to properly use those nodes."

That is very true, the manual is weak, but I've never failed to get an answer to a question posted here within a couple hours, often from an expert in the particular area of Poser I needed the help with, Stewer being one of them. :O)