hbo, I believe VSS didn't work for me because somebody said it was in the wrong runtime, but I forgot which was the correct runtime.  PP2012 has two of its own runtimes in my case, one in the PP2012 app folder, the other in the PP2012 content folder.  I tried miki 4 with default ezskin (left) and with default templarskin (right). no changes to any nodes by me, excepting to add miki3 colour and bump maps to templarskin. I didn't see a place to add miki3 spec map. I like templarskin's possibilities, as it shows texture detail even using minimal render settings, but not sure how to change the greenish cast to the skin.