Okay - had a moment of "Eureka!" with lights! I think I will officially be able to come up with a lighting schematic/setup after more than a little play and save the whole thing as a scene file - this is a hope. At the least I think I can make a preset kinda thing.

The extra geometry seems to have helped, but I see a bit of the problem still there in the rounded geometry. But I have a feeling it's also something that a single color with a good amount of Specularity is showing. When I put a real texture on there I have a feeling it's gonna blend in and look normal.

We'll see...

Meanwhile - I'm LOVING Spanki's Riptide plugin! MAN that really helps organize things for import into Poser!

-Lew