Oooh - so much better. OK maybe 1/2 was too much.

What version of Poser are you using? If Poser Pro, we should turn on gamma correction (GC) before we go any further. If Poser 7, we can talk about using GC materials on the rest of the scene to bring some of the light back.

Without gamma correction, things appear darker than they really are. As a result, lighting your scene is always more difficult because things don't show up the way they should. If we try to solve the problem only with lighting tricks, it takes more effort. If we solve the underlying problem, which is that things need to be gamma corrected (everything) then lighting is easy.

So if you're using Poser 7, I'm wondering where you want to expend effort - tricky lighting, or tricky shaders.

Of course, you already have tricky shaders on the figure - VSS shaders are all gamma correcting. If you have Poser Pro and we go with render GC, we'll want to turn off the GC in the VSS materials.

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