ahudson - Your problem is about the vue shader? Tell me if i'm wrong. You want to have the same skin with vue shader as with Poser shader tree? 
As you are running Esprit, you can't access to the advanced material editor (as me), so the vue shader you could construct may be limited compared to the Poser shader you could do into Poser.
For the display you get, i use the compatibiltty mode as i have only 512 memory. Sometimes the render get veeeeeeeeeery slowly, but hu... Vue capabilities worth the time, no?   ;)

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