Ooh.  Thanks, guys.  I'll try to go through that thread more carefully.  I think part of my trouble is that I've never learned to light a scene decently.  I think I may have a long-standing tendency to over-light, and all of my shaders... umm... reflect that fact.  Hmm.

Robyn, I've never figured out how to use MatMatic!  :lol:  But I wouldn't say no to an example shader, either.  I could learn to use BB's MM, perhaps, if properly motivated by the need to use it to build a good skin shader.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.