There are something like 90 nodes there. You don't connect anything. That is my standard PR3 skin shader with no AO. Anth was showing what settings to use. Usually you only mess with the ones on the far left. But to get the gold shimmer, you want to change the color of the Blinn node so that was shown.

It's because the effect was produced with a metallic makeup. Metals produce colored specular reflections. Skin does not. So the skin shader usually has white in the specular color.

By the way, Anthanasius, thanks for posting it. I tried to do better than you did (before you posted) and failed. Being super busy with work, I was not able to continue experimenting. Your post was very much what I had come up with.

I think better is possible, but not without a completely different shader. And maybe it would even need some nodes we don't have in Poser.

While there are quite a few things we can do with the nodes we have, there are some effects that just cannot be assembled from those. The way light is reflected in this case is too different from all of the lighting nodes we have to produce a good match.

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