Like I said: all other settings are exactly the same. I changed nothing except raytracing > depth-mapped shadows on the lights.

The other artifacts - not so good, but not as glaring as the lips.

I'm just checking something right now though... I think I may have AO on the lips. The shader was originally built on the AO version of VSS. I scrapped it for the skin, but may have forgotten the lips. I'm doing a test render with a non-AO VSS version right now to see what happens.

I don't recall... is AO only a problem with raytracing? It was these problems that led me to abandon raytraced shadows in Poser Pro, but now that I can rid of material AO, maybe I'll be (relatively) okay after all.

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Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X/MSI MAG570 Tomahawk X570/Zotac Geforce GTX 1650 Super 4GB/32GB OLOy RAM

Software: Windows 10 Professional/Poser Pro 11/Photoshop/Postworkshop 3