Hmmm - you're experiencing the bloat bug. That's where VSS mistakenly think you have a displacement map, when in fact you don't, and a constant amount of displacement is being added. This is another Poser weirdness - what is the name of the file in an Image_Map that doesn't have a file in it? The answer is supposed to be null, not a name, but sometimes I seem to be getting the string "None" - which looks like a file name.

You can just rip out the displacement subtree from the Template Skin shader and that problem will go away.

The images are very small, so it's hard to tell, but it looks like you're getting some splotchiness on the forehead. In my skin shader, I disable texture filtering because it reduces detail for a lot of skin texture. What is your min shading rate? If you're going to render small like that, you need to decrease the shading rate below 1.

Or - is it because of the spots node I have in the shader? I can't really tell - the renders are so small I can't make out the shapes. I can't tell if those are in your color map, or being added by the shader.

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