Maxxx - awesome!

I'm starting to get some good results, so pretty excited by this approach.  Clarifying some points:

Light Emitting Planes - Set Difuse and Ambient color to be the same.  Set Diffuse value to 1, and ambient somewhere between 3 and 8.

Ratrace Bounces - 3 is enough, but if your scene is too dark, go to 4, at the cost of some contrast.

Gamma - Definitely 2.2 is the go.  1 looks terrible.

Raytrace Reflection node - Set the quality to 1 and the softness to at least 2.5.  increase softness to reduce oiliness.  If the quality is < 1, it gives a bump type effect, which really should be coming from the bump map.

Irrandiance Caching - You can get away with some incredibly low numbers here if there are no straight joined surfaces.  A value of 30 will give great results for some scenes.  Doubt you would need to go over 50.

Indirect Light Quality - More is better here - since it removes the splotchiness.  Go with 50 as a starting point and increase for the final render.

SSS - I have removed - it just doesn't seem to be needed for skin.  There is enough raytraced reflections from skin-to-skin to get the effect.  Maybe if you have back-lights it might provide some value.

I need to experiment with non-enclosed rooms - to see what effect not having all the walls for the light to bounce around in will have.

[OK, so the above is really just confirming the settings that Maxxxmodels originallt gave :-)]

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