Crescent Thats assuming the modeler assigned materials to the pieces. More often than not I've found myself grouping and mat assigning in poser. Fine for props but evil work for characters ('cause then you have to hack the cr2 to point at the geom with the new uvm info). As for overlapping jewels of similar color - as a texturer I'd rather you didn't. I'd say that separating the jewels from the metalparts would make it easier to texure. That way a bump map can be set up to make filigree effects without having to worry about the stones. Also what was suggested about using just material settings would also work well, as long as you have grouped wisely. Jewels especially work nicely with a color set, than semitransparant and high specularity. I have to say that posette does not look impressed about being crowned :) Lyrra PS tell me if you need costume info - my sister does Elizabethan costuming professionally.