ok ive change my envsphere ambient to 8, but my figure uses Blackhearteds textures which do not use the diffuse node, instead they use the Alternate diffuse which has no value, so i plug an hsv node into that with the texture into the hsv, with the values set to 1 except the "value" which is 0.1 and then render... but if you look at the legs i get these artifacts, how do i get rid of them? ive tried increasing all the idl settings in the D3Ds render options but to no avail, which is very annoying, is there a way round this?

Getting old and still making "art" without soiling myself, now that's success.