Hi,

Just installed Michael 4 to poser pro and whn I render him with a MAT it comes out with a blue cast. If I render without an additional MAT its ok. Other characters rendered along side him are also ok . 

Any ideas?

Maybe you got the Andorian pack?...;)

Sounds like you're missing some textures. You might try an uninstall/reinstall of M4.

I've done that and also happens with other DAZ M4 texures!

can you post the material room screen for the material thats looking bluish ?

I looked into the material room and your on the right track. All the surface textures have a light blue diffuse colour, that if I alter solves the problem. Only thing is that I don't know how to change for all the texture with out doing each invididual part. Surely I an't be the only one with this or is there a setting wrong in my copy?

Wait! If they are V4 style shaders, there skin diffuse color is supposed to be blue, to compensate for the excessive amount of red that it built into the texture map.

However, these V4 style shaders include colors and other choices that implicitly take into account the absence of gamma correction on earlier versions of Poser.

But Poser PRO has gamma correction. So before you muck with everything, answer this: are you rendering with gamma correction? Are your prepared to address the differences inherent in knowning how to render with GC? (You get better results, but almost every light set and shader that is out there, including many of mine, are going to misbehave without tuning for GC rendering.)

If the answer is you don't want to deal with all that, then simply turn it off, and Poser Pro will behave like the Poser's of old. Shaders with built-in GC effects should be used this way.

Well you got it completely right. Turned off the GC and all is well, but the price paid is the renders now seem over bright! I'll have to start tweeking when I feel braver. Now I can use M4 having paid for him!

Thanks!