"POVRay seems cool." 

FlyerX keeps adding more and more to PoseRay all the time so rendering Poser scenes is really easy once you've got them saved. Honestly, it's worth getting it just for the conversion of Lightwave files to .obj for use in Poser as well as other goodies. I think you have to go to the Kerkythea forum to get the version that will export to that renderer. The PoseRay support is still very basic for K, but still useable. K has a variety of modes in addition to MLT and though not as mature as POVRay - which is has been around forever - is a quality app.

Have you tried this 'SSS Skin for Poser and Daz people'?

http://www.3dtotal.ru/forum/archive/index.php/t-7501.html

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