in the old days, they useta use APS to create a 40% trans blur layer over the render, in order to hide the lighting, shadowing and bending defects. I recall month after month of posts at legume's poser newsgroup where they reiterated said techinique. I dunno if they still do it, but I see from poser and vue posts that they're still having the same probs with poser figures, 10 years later. maybe it would help to read the manual, god forbid. and all that stuff written by tony hernandez, god rest his soul.