Quote - A note for those new to the poser material room

 

Reflection, Refraction and Alternate Diffuse are actually all diffuse parameters.  You can plug any diffuse or specular node into any of these and they will work just as if they were plugged into just the alternate diffuse parameter.

Alternate Specular is however different and will not accept any special diffuse nodes (like scatter nodes)

Mostly true. When transparency is involved, the Reflection_Color channel is hacked by misguided P4 era logic, so it's not quite the same clean math as Alternate_Diffuse.

Once I discovered this, I stopped using the others - I add everything I need together with Color_Math:Add nodes and then connect to Alternate_Diffuse.

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