The render on the left is done with default poser lights and i added a chrome material on the choker...and i like how her skin looks...the only disatvantage is that the chrome material that i have applied to the choker cant be seen at all.

Now the render on the right is has the same default poser lights...but i added BB env sphere in order to get reflective effects...and it works...the chrome on the choker can really be seen now...but now the disatvantage is that i dont like how her skin texture color has changed...and the reason it has changed is because i added the env sphere.

The real question:  is it possible to preserve the same skin texture color from the the render on the left and still have the chrome stand out like the render on the right...with out using the env sphere?...because the env sphere obviously produces great reflections...but at the same time it has its own light meaning that it somehow washes over any other lights that you have in the scene...in other words is there a way of achieving the same reflective results that the sphere produces...but with out the sphere?...

thanks for viewing.

If you're using PoserPro 2012, under the properties tab for the environment sphere, untick "Light Emitter" option.

Correct; Bb's shere is self lit.

So? What does that tell you?

it adds light to your scene

Solution is to reduce the intensiy of your other lights present in the scene.

When I use BB's sphere, I mostly use only one infinite light set at something between 50 and 60% intensity.

Experiment and start from this info.

Uncheck "light emitor" will make you loose most of its advantages.

But you can control the intensity with the HSV value.

If adding the sphere with light emitter off changes the lighting, then you must be using IBL + IDL. Is that true?

And none of us with long experience with Poser have any idea what "default Poser lights" means. First of all, the defaults keep changing. Second they are so bad we delete them immediately.

And default Poser lights are set for depth map; you need raytracing for proper reflections.

your icon is very nice, sheedee - like zeus about to smite those still using depth maps!  you may have some bad diffuse/IDL settings, as seen in nostrils, elbow fold, lips.  maybe you could show them your render settings.  they may also want to see the skin settings.

Also it looks like the chrome shader may be questionable - can you post a screenshot of the setup?