Quote - What am I doing wrong?

Just about everything. As you're new to Poser you have a steep learning curve ahead of you, but I'd recommend that you read carefully BB's notes about VSS. Do a search for 'VSS' and user 'bagginsbill' in these forums and you'll find a wealth of information.

Kalypso's given some excellent advice above, but when she says "Those controls don't work if you don't have matmatic installed" I think she means if you don't have Parmatic installed.

You need to understand what Gamma Correction does; how shaders work; how Poser lights work; and how all of these interact with the render engine before you can say "VSS shaders look terrible". What you really mean is "I can't get VSS to work because I don't know what I'm doing".

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