poser and carrara both have strong and weak sides, shaders in poser, i can make damn near anything, i know that much but at the cost of render time and memory, which i accept carrara is looking more like "it doesn't belong there, don't try" so can't really do dumb things, when many times, its the dumb things that can turn out a desired result anyways on a side note, poser has an "edge blend" node anything that does the same in carrara? or close? its like a mixer, but the part controlling it, controls based on the angle between the normal and camera example, you could plug it into the transparency, and normals facing the camera can be solid, and the normals pointing to the side, would be transparent, depending settings was good for creating glowing spheres and such, so the edges wouldnt have a thick glowing ring thats just 1 thing :P many many uses for it