I appreciate the help, seachnasaigh, I really appreciate it. Please keep in mind that I have Poser 8 and it gets confusing when you throw in the midst of your explanations, directions for 2012 or Poser 9. I'm having a hard time distinquishing between the two sets of directions.

Also, in referring to the different shapes, initially you told me to create two duplicates so I have three 'gems' and therefore I'm not sure which 'gem' you're referring to with the above settings and directions. For clarifcation can we label them as inner gem, middle gem and outer gem and could you repeat your directions keeping in mind the above?

If you could do that, it would help the more simple minded, such as myself. : )

Thank you - a lot!