Well, I can think of a workaround like: combine my bump map's opacity in a photoshop layer to a degree, so that when it is combined with the displacement map, that also is a layer in photoshop, it will produce the desired results in vue. Agiel, the reason would be more for control for desired effects that is easier to implement. Can you imagine tiles where a bump map is needed to produces small light grit on the tile, and the displacement map produces extreme depth and contour around each tile. The tiling on a bathroom floor is an example. Does this make sense? To me it makes perfect sense. Plus, other apps do it. Would it be hard to let vue do it too? Plus, how can vue interpret poser imports that have seperate displacement & bump maps. jc, it is very exciting. I am very happy with vue 6. There are so many new and improved things.