templargfx,

Hey sorry I didn't come back to this for a whole week - I got distracted.

I'm pretty sure you don't want to lower the reflection quality like that. Instead, I think your brain was interpreting the reduced reflection amount due to the Fresnel effect as a poorer quality reflection. My experiments show that when you lower the Poser Reflect Quality parameter, it actually pixellates the results, which is not only lower quality but also not realistic.

Here's your Sparkle/Red modified to include the Fresnel effect. Any nodes that are closed means I didn't touch those - they are the same as you had them. I also found out why it looked blue - because you had blue=35 in the Diffuse_Color! I changed that to pure red here. Also it is important to >> turn off the Reflection_Lite_Mult - never use that. It multiples the reflection with the amount of light hitting the object at each point. This has nothing to do with reality and dims the reflections.

The Edge_Blend Inner_Color is RGB(15, 15, 15) - anything else that looks black is black.

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