Crash, There are many things which use transparency maps. Hair is the most common, but if you put a dagged edge on a cloak or cut out a series of holes in a catsuit or put lace on some underwear, your model will be dressed in dots until rendered. You can alleviate this effect by displaying things in another mode such as "cartoon shaded" if it bothers you. I prefer the dots, because the display mode affects everything displayed. The other point raised above is that file types have to be in the correct library to be used by Poser. hr2 files are hair, cr2 files are character, pp2 files are props, etc.. Somewhere in this forum is a list of the extensions and where they go. Most good modelers will include a readme file which will say where to put the others if they are not automatically installed. We Mac users get by pretty easily since Maconverter and Macinstaller do most of that for us. But sometimes things will go wrong with installers (I just hit a snag with the DAZ installer), and then we do need to know where to put stuff so that Poser can find it. Carolly