Man that term is defined in the manual, but if you look at page 194-196 they talk about the "global" things of Bryce.. The only one I can think that he might be refering to is the "global changes" (right middle column, page 194) It says "The component window in the center of the editor, called the Combination component, represents the final combined texture. Any changes you make to this final component are considered global changes since they affect the entire texture" Not being at home its hard for me to test things out and all I have is my manual and books here that I read..over and over and over..:) Hope that helps you some.