I spoke to soon after waking up. When I said "any orange or red is bad", that was too much a blanket statement.

In some cases, you want a little over exposure - to get that outdoor blazing sun look. Also, if you enable HSV Exponential tone mapping, it is impossible to overexpose, and so more red is acceptable.

It's been a while since I did some Poser 8 style rendering (i.e. without render GC) but I just did a little tweaking and see that good results are possible with "simple" shaders.

This is the standard Miki3 Basic skin, rendered in Poser Pro 2010 but only using P8 features.

I made adjustments to the lighting and the tone mapping that are pretty simple.

Today is a busy day for me at home, but perhaps tomorrow I will have time to post some details.

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