Hi - yes I'm on the road and very busy. But I see you're in good hands.

m.behr - It looks to me like you're using the original shaders that came with Preview Release 1 (PR1). There are two more since then that are much better. At the very least, go back to my VSS web site and download the PR2 control prop.

http://poserbagginsbill.googlepages.com/vsshomepage

You can also get the PR3 skin shader which is even better from my other web site.

http://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/free-stuff/random-shaders

So PR1 was the whole kit including the python scripts and lights.

PR2 was just a replacement for the control prop. This will correct a lot of problems.

And PR3 is just a replacement for the skin shader of the control prop.

The lights I included are ordinary Poser light sets. They don't automatically load and have nothing to do with VSS  per se. If you want to try them, go ahead, but once you start using PR2 or PR3 you need to decrease the intensity of the IBL lights in those PR1 lighting presets. My first pass at the shaders was based on using lights that were too hot.

I really only included them so that somebody could exactly match my results from my demo renders. They're not intended to be awesome lights or anything, just really simple basic setups for demos. (Many people don't know how to set lights for sunset versus noon at the beach, versus indoor.) These lights are fully procedural, which means the IBL doesn't actually use an "image" - the gradations in brightness are produced by nodes. That makes it easy for me to tweak them and send you new ones - they are tiny text files - no pictures.

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