On second thought, that is about the right amount of ambience when compared to a P5 render. The wierd shadow is still a problem, though. I'll see what that diffuse node can do about that, and play with the other settings more. At least the ray tracing on the eyes and earrings seems to have improved in P6, and I've gotten refraction to work on the corneas for the first time in Poser. Those results were... interesting.