Ok... wheww, many responses, been busy for a while..

Poser installed on my laptop so I can start using IDL lights.  Copying my runtimes, taking quite a long time!

@piersyf: Will not use textures on HDRI environment, as it changes the color of the skin in renders.   Maybe in an "artistic render", but I want to show the customers what she truly looks like.  I'll use IBL lights with an infinite light though, or maybe my light set included, I'll see what looks good.

@Glitterati3D, I make my head morphs through DS3 and Ultra Face Morphs (merchant recourse at runtimeDNA), there are so many morphs you can play with.  I don't have, or don't know how to play with morphs with other 3D programs, though I do have Blacksmith3D's paint pro which includes morphing ability, I'll play around.  As for Dawn, Roxie & Miki4, I highly doubt neither one has any body morphs that would make them look like teens/kids, and there are hardly any clothes/hair support for them.  I highly doubt they even have as much morphs as V4 and all her add-ons (which is why V4 lasted soooooo many years).  Custom body morphs, yes there are some, but then the clothes won't fit them properly, and I highly doubt there are even some custom morphs that make them look like kids either.  V4 is not dead, V4 characters still sale a lot and there are a huge number of customers that still buy V4 characters.  I'm gonna learn G2 female morphing and jump in the boat, as there are a huge number of support climbing for her, not to mention, she has teen morphs as well.  I may do an adult version of one of the three you requested though, just gotta learn how to morphs their faces.. and then, I don't even know if they are DS compatible.  Yes, I'm an ex-DS user, now Poser user, but I didn't forsake DS users, I always try to support both Poser and DS.

@booksbydavid: When I was online with my main computer with my CRT monitor, yes, I did calibrate my monitor, but it's not online anymore.  My laptop monitor is calibrated, so I'm just depending on what things look like from it.  The CRT monitor is turned up as far as it can be, but it just doesn't compare to the LCD monitors.  Running your promo renders through some color editing is a big no-no.  You are required to show what color your characters look like in mono lights and cannot post work, this way your customers know what they're getting.  If you render them in some different colors, or post work the image, your customers will get something different then what they're buying.  Not good.  I render them in mono lights to show what color the character really is, and never post work on the actual renders.

@Miss Nancy, I don't need to use fancy lights or skin surfaces,I don't know about BB's lights, but Snarly's skin surface scripts seems difficult to use & I don't understand it.  What I used as far as skin surface seems very good and doesn't glow in the dark or react strangely to different lights (with permission, I copied mine from another vendor, and with lots of learning, I edited them).  I don't need extra special surface settings, I've already learned a lot from other people.  The lights I used, yes, too bright and contrast so I'm working on that and will be re-doing the promos.
You quoted: "you wouldn't get honest opinions, as rule here: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything. it's more supportive, but leaves users stuck in ruts" True, very true as for people who refuses to learn from critics, but when you ask for one's honest opinion, you just might get negative.  Most people can't handle it, I do know that, but then if they that can't handle it, they can't learn.  It's nice to get some encouragements though, as to what you did right and what is good.  I agree.  But I prepared my self to get nothing but negative so that I can see what I'm doing wrong, so I can correct them.  In fact, I've became a friend of a person who gave a lot of negative feed back, she will be helping me if I need it, she's a tough one!  Thank you much friend!

@Louis Cross:  Older women just don't sell much here and I don't have resources for older women (wrinkle skin resources, etc).  I support the too and wouldn't mind making a couple older women products, but what most people buy are 20 to 30 yr old sexy women.  I pretty much specialize in the other minority group which are young kids and teens.  Strangely though, my Lucy Zepp teens package has sold far more than all my other characters, all my adult characters are gorgeous, but the teens sold most, so I know what I'm going for.  Also consider this, I'm about the only vendor here that sell the young version of V4/S4 (down to age 5), so people that are looking for kids that can wear V4 clothes are gonna find me.

@Male_M3dia: The icons?  Testers? Sitemail me, you have me curious where you're coming from & how you know these info. As for the clothing used in promos, yes I could've used "normal clothes that cover you mostly" but wanted to display her.  I've seen much more showing, skimpy clothes on younger looking characters here in the marketplace, so I don't think I'm in the wrong here.  Also, you quoted "I'm also going to point out that you should never say that one program renders better than others then present actual renders that contradict your argument. It's all about learning your tool of choice."  Where did I say that???  Not in promos for sure *scratches head

Ok folks, need to go to bed & go to work in the morning!  Fun chatting with you this is getting pretty interesting :)

...wolfie