Yamato solved my problem--I did not have the 'frontin' (second bangs layer) selected correctly, but found that to get the wonderful hairline, you must do another selection besides just the 'hair' parts. For the 'hairline', select the hair texture in the first column of the material lab. In the second column, select the base transmap, do 'blend transparency' and select transparent in the second column, but do not do any percentage. I am in the process of rendering the results of the 'experiment'--because of the transparency maps, it is taking a fair amt. of time to render. Because of the way Yamato and Kozaburo constructed this 'hair', it is a bit different to get it to map correctly in Bryce, but worth it smile. Diane B