Quote - Why do you need to do this with a mask method.

Also - Is this the only displacement you want to do on the "head" Poser surface?

The mask method enables me to use any skin texture I want without having to make a new one. I am using skin as an example, but this can be used on anything. > Quote - you should be able to make the gems stretch down to the skin by increasing their size on the image map while leaving the displacement map alone.  just scale each gem a few pixels that'll do it.

In theory that would seem to work. I tried it, it doesn't. It does work however if you were to make a new texture combined with the displacement image , which I am trying to avoid.