Heh heh. I think I've cracked it .. I've changed the CR2s so they have a default shading rate of 0.05 (instead of 0.2). The difference is astonishing (pic above default textures, rendered in P6 Firefly shadows enabled, 0.05 shading rate, raytraced, 9x pixel sampling rate, some bizarre lighting rig I threw together). Nodes altered as I mentioned in a previous post. And with a bit of jiggery pokery, I've managed to get it to work in all Poser versions. Tonight I'll change all the matposes. I'll get the revised pack off to Daz asap (probably tomorrow or Wednesday). Thanks for all your input .. it looks much better now, huh?