Hi Matthew, I don't have Michael 2 and not the beard, and it doesn't happen with other figures since Vue 4.06 for me with Poser pple. I think you have done well to report it to e-on. Maybe somebody here has the same problem??? If an object without transparency map becomes transparent... have a look in the material editor for this material and check if the transparency slider is correctly at 0%. If this doen't solve the problem, could you please post a sample image where these points appear? Let us know:-) Guitta