Hi i know this is an old thread but just had to try this and fiddle a bit. What i have found is that using the translucency settings make the skin look a bit better and receive llight even better. what I did is use the settings exactly as above, but changed the translucency color to a peach or brown color then set the translucency value at around .3 or .4 and connect your image map/texture map to your translucency color. There is a small difference as you can see here, all threee were rendered in the same lighting and pose, first default everything, second with the setting posted above and third with translucency on. anyways hope this helps, very interesting stuff :)