""Maybe there are a few folks doing exotic things with complex procedurals in the Materials tab, but that's very rare.""

croc, you do know BB is reading this thread, right?

Seriously, for anyone caring about skin, even without "true" SSS, the material node system of Poser is critical. If moving your scene with human skin prominent into another program or engaging another render engine means ditching the handling of the Poser nodes....yuck.

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