(I have not seen this technique suggested before, apologies if it is merely obvious.) Here is a way to get a layered hair effect from the many hair models that are already available. Start with the OBJ of the hair. Import it into Poser serially, with each instance at a slightly reduced scale. Export the combined layers as a single OBJ. The advantage: the same or different texture, bump, and transparency maps can be applied to each layer. An interesting effect can be obtained by just varying the color, highlight color/size, and transparency of each layer. The disadvantage: the size of the mesh. I am willing to elaborate on what I have done if such is requested. By the way, does anyone know the proper switches to get Poser-post 118 to put all of the v's, vt's, vn's, and f's of the several groups together, instead of serially. Pre-patch, Poser 4 seemed to do it that way, there are now more choices on export, but I do not understand the differences in the choices. In my hands, MSWord scrolls like windshield wipers on high, so the cut/paste was a real joy. Jaager