Just as a footnote to this ever-more interesting thread, I tried out Prizm's suggestion that you save tex's to library after applying them to spheres. Very good idea - you can give thos e tex's a meaningful name and just quick-load them onto a sphere as a prelude to loading the figure next time. Might not be worth doing for all Poser-related tex's, but for your favorite ones it seems a neat trick for us lazy guys who keep forgetting our file paths ;-) Thanx Prizm. Might I add that you can also make your own light sets by grouping all your lights with a sphere where all the lights' beams intersect. Save to user object lib, and next time you need it, load and place the sphere where your figure is, then delete the sphere. A little light can make a lot of difference - even good ol' Posette can look almost human, as I hope to have hinted at above. And Jackson : while I use (and like) both Vue and Bryce, Bryce always makes me think of what someone once said of Monet (quoting from memory) : "The air in his pictures is the air that one lives and breathes". That's why lazy guys such as yours truly sticks with Bryce despite the hassle and tweaking ;-)