heyas; yes, use :'s and start at runtime. the thing is, since textures can be placed and loaded from anywhere, its likely that some people dont even have them on the same drive as poser. (i didnt.... i might store them there now that i have a bigger drive... but anyway...) when the pointers are set up like that, i've found that poser asks me to locate the texture, if it can't find it. when i point it to the drive/directory where i actually did put the texture, it then finds any/all subsequent textures that go with it. that seems to work for some people, but many claim poser always asks them to locate ALL the instances of every texture. (i suspect in that case it might be because the pointers are the d:directorystuff format, instead of :runtime:etc: -- but i have no proof.)