Thank you nancy, it was actually the IDL's irridance cache that was giving me problems.  I usually had it on 100 because I thought doing it all at once would be better.  Turns out not.

 

Turns out it looks best on 99 with a seperate pass and not on 100 for some reason.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)