I use base color on on just about all material regions, interacting with the overlying texture. Solid white base becomes pretty washed out with any bright lights. The amount of texture map used is adjustable. A black highlight color will render the object or region flat, with no highlight at all! Some good effects are possible with just the right blend of base color, highlight color, and highlight percent. And then there's the lights... I would suggest playing around with different settings until you hit on just the right combination. Also, if the skin part of the texture map is a solid color, it will appear like there's no texture at all on the skin. Try a 15-15-15 grey for the skin highlight to add a little sheen to the skin. Contrasting colors can work for base and highlight, but generally a darker version of the same hue works well for the highlight. Any RGB values in the highlight above 15 or 20 start to give shinyness to a region, which you may want for some things. Thorne =};-}>