Khai-J-Bach,

Thanks for your reply but look, please don't assume because I'm asking for help with Poser 5 that I am just being stubborn, I don't necessarily want to use Poser 5 - it's just that it was free (if it has bugs that'll be why it was free) and I can't buy anything now - maybe in a month or two, but not now.

When you mention 'shaders' those are things created inside Poser - right?  Using some sort of math, right?

Well I won't be using those, I'll just be using my own textures which are either derived from my own photographs (brass, copper, verdigris etc) or else are totally designed and created by me in PhotoShop - so hopefully I won't have 'shader' bug type problems - will I?

Yes I do have glass in the lanterns - but this 'glass' has designs on it, since it's meant for 'stained glass'.  If the lanterns are saved with just the designs in place and not turned into 'glass' in Poser 5 (adding transparency etc) - will that be okay?

Does just adding transparency in Poser 5 make that a 'shader'?

Thanks for the link, I will look at it when I have time.

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