That's good advice markschum, I'll give it a try. Like I said there are lots of settings I need to read about and get familiar with if I'm gonna render fifteen characters for this animation. I can't even put them all up on the screen without my pc slowing to a crawl, lol.

I noticed that The Kids 4 skateboarder shorts and Tshirts have quite a few image maps that are 2500x2500, and I'm working on getting rid of all those and customizing my own designs for the same shirts and shorts at 1000x1000 just to save from bogging down my cpu. I'm hoping to use one image node if I can get it to look half decent.

I tried deleting all those nodes and used one image node map at 1000x1000, and plugged it into only the diffuse color and it seemed to work ok, cept I've really not much of an idea if what I'm doing is the correct way, but it worked at least! :-)