Those little black speck often appear when you use soft raytraced shadows, especially when the skin texture has a bump map. When you change the shadows to mapped shadows and boost up the quality to 100%, those specks disappear and the skin looks good. bungle: you apparently haven't seen richardsons gallery yet. I have never seen skin look better than that, not in Vue, not in Max. If you're talking about the P4 render engine, you're right, Vue always renders better than Poser 4. But the material room of Poser 5 is quite powerful, I think it's as powerful as the Vue materials, but in its own, quite different way. "Out of the box" renders in Vue always look better than "out of the box" Poser renders. Fine-tuned skin materials in P5 using Firefly, combined with fine-tuned lights make for extremely realistic skin, more realistic than I've ever seen in Vue (including Vue 5).

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