Hello, first post on renderosity :)

"Also, how do you make the material darker at the top and shade to lighter at the bottom?"

If you mean like the "faded" preview on the daz forum: I used an opacity map. Its included in the sunglasses zip. Its called "El Sunglas FADED O1.png". I use the free daz studio, there you can load it in the surface tab under "opacity". I dont know if poser has an option like that though...
The letters at the end of the pictures in the zip file stand for:
C: color map
B: bump map
O: opacity map
R: reflection map

Great pictures! its nice to see people like the glasses!

Thanks,
Ele.

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