Bear in mind that a lot of this was done in 2002-2003; at one point, I had over 50 original textures for the little guy that were just experiements never released. I havent even thought about taking the dork into WW and bringing some of Michael's clothing over for him. That could be interesting...

Here is Posette rendered in Poser Pro 2010 using DPH's V3 re-map and an African head morph I saved to obj from the P4 Ethnic character set. The texture is Copilote's Lisha, and I used the VSSPr3_NoAO shader. I had to tweak VSS a bit because it was miisinterpreting the ears, thnking they were corneas. Took me a while to figure that out.

DPH, all that layering you do...it gets you the result you want, but I want to render in one pass.

@NanetteTredoux;
That looks fabulous!  If this is the African Head that you were looking for, so much the better!  I render the way I do because it suits me!  Also, when I press VSS into service, I seem to have a singular incompetence in operating it.  Nevermind, I usually have to do a lot of postwork anyway because of pokethrough.  DO keep up your good work!

@SeanMartin;
some of your Dork renders look better than mine!  Good job, and DO keep it up.  The Dork deserves respect!
dph

dph,
you know what  could provide a nice firelight glow to the room. IDL lighting. Just create a couple props.  red, orange and yellow over in direction of fireplace. turn ambiance up to like say 6  if they are not too far away. you'll have to test it based on your scene. then delete and/or turn off all lights. turn on IDL lighting manual render settings.
 only possible in Poser 8 or Pro 2010 though... It will produce a very nice natural feel to the light.
regards,
jason-
 

@3dactor:
Thank you for the good advice.  In future renders, I'll see what I can do.
Yours truly,
David P. Hoadley