whats going on here,this is Victoria and all of her lovely high res textures.It happens wthe the lo res as well.why does she look like she was rolled in a gfire pit and then gaffed with a fish hook,the fish hook scar i can get rid of in a pain program,but what up wityh fixing the soot on her skin,and why is it happening? help would be appreciated. thanks

Have you opend the texture map she is useing in some art program and looked at it to be sure it isn't ment to have that soot look?

This is just a guess, but are you using regular Poser 4 (without ProPack)? That "dirty" look happens when you use .jpg or other bump maps that haven't been converted to .bum format in P4. If that's not the case, sorry ... it does look related to bump issues, though, not the texture maps.

Yes,i am using standard P4,and i havent checked out the jpeg in a paint program yet,thanks for the info,i will try suggestions,thank you

It looks like you've just turned the bump map up to too high a percentage. In the P4 Mat Lab... turn it down to 50% or even lower.

You can't use a .jpg in P4 for the bump map. You have to convert it to a .bum file. Load the bump map manually in the Materials area and it will offer to turn it into a .bum file. Click "Yes." If there's a P4 MAT, you'll need to use that, or convert your current MAT file to look for the .bum instead of the .jpg. Cheers!

yup thats the classic 'sooty render' your are using poser4 and have a jpg in the Bump channel. You need to use a BUM format bumpmap and the sootiness will go away. waves to crescent