dburdick,

Thanks for the continued help on this. You may be right, it may just be that I am new to Vue and was more use to the way Poser did things. Perhaps the lighting you state is better in that image of Vue over Poser. I am still learning many things on Vue and that is why this helps so I can understand the lighting and looks more.

I will try to post some links later today as well, but I wanted you to know that your one link is almost exactly what I am looking for in Vue for skin realism. This is the one you did I am referring to:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1603268

If I could replicate this look in Vue for my imports I would be quite happy. Do you think that one is well done? Reason I ask is you said some look fake, but this one looks real good to me and about the best I can maybe refer to. Basically, I just need to fine tune this to show a scene with a V4 figure like this in the background, say a beach or something so there are 2 render versions of it: 1 that is the FULL scene and the 2nd that is a close up of the V4 model(s). The link above is really what I am after for most of my scenes. If you could help by letting me know some settings for SkinVue 7 and other tips to achieve this it would help a lot. Do you think I would need to adjust the lighting in the scene if I want to do 2 renders like mentioned above, one that is the full scene and the other a closeup render focused on the character(s)?

Thanks again for all the help and others too, I am more optimistic it will work out now for me as I continue to learn about achieving this realism.

Jeff

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