Snarly Gribbly (many, many thanks) has made a wonderful free skin shader tool called Ezskin. It's here on his website. There are some threads here about it, along with some posted renders so you can see it.

http://snarlygribbly.org/snarlyspace/ezskin.html

Here's a page by Jurn talking about it and how to use it

http://www.jurn.org/dazposer/?p=5270

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