Thanx for the suggestion Trekkie... as it stands now i may be getting a copy of poser 7.. a friend of mine bought it because she wanted to start trying modelling but didn't like it... so she's said i can have her liscenced copy...with the reg numbers etc... she never uses it... if i get that then i can test my stuff in poser and sort out some of the probs... so far though it's seeming like alot of the probs are with poser6 specifically... but i'll see what i can do... i've gone back and checked my diffuse settings etc... and everything is fine... so the issue is somewhere with poser when it's translating and importing the objects...or with daz when it's exporting and translating the items to poser format... not sure which... but when i load them in daz... no issues... so... at least users have been able to sort the probs out themselves thus far... and i'll see what i can do on my end... as a word of note though... i do plan on working with high res maps for better detailing... which means larger maps than normal... though mine aren't as large a size as some i've seen with figures... both pro and freebies like mine...