Well, I decided to take the plunge and upgraded from 2.41 to 2.42. I'm still very new to Blender and I'm doing a lot of experimenting and very little actual project making. I did have an idea, but it involves using figures from Poser or DAZ Studio imported in to Blender. I'm figuring out how to apply textures ok, but I'm lost on making the transparency maps apply properly. To top it off, the interface got changed around with a bunch of new settings to play with.

I would really appreciate someone with experience in handling Poser or DAZ Studio imports to shed some light on this.