I don't know how much sense it makes or how hard it is to do, but what if you divided the face into more than one mat zone, perhaps as many as 3. I'm thinking along the lines of being able to have options to change for example, only sideburns, or only beard/moustache, so a person could use, for example, sideburns 3 with beard 5 kinda thing. It's a real pain sometimes trying to get a beard figure to fit correctly on a custom morphed character and often, for short facial hair at least, it seems to look better to just have it as part of the face texture. I realize it probably sounds kooky, but there's this devil in me that always wonders if things can be done. LOL