Dizzie...that's EXACTLY what I'm talking about and asking. They don't look photo-realistic. Yes, Catherina's are close...I also use her textures. So...what is the secret? If you look at most of the images here on Renderosity, they either have a somewhat cartoon look to them, even the ones done to be realistic, the Poser plastic look of the P4 fem and dork characters, or the unreal look of the DAZ characters. It has to be the lighting...and possibly somewhat the environment. If we're using photorealistic textures...what is missing???? If you look at any photo of a person, in any environment, they don't look anything like the Poser stuff....but it isn't just lighting...the entire photo has a much crisper, cleaner appearance...deeper The second reply way up at the top of the thread from Jaqui is the answer, but not the total answer. I've done some work in Bryce5, and the end result isn't much better...in fact the textures look better in Poser IMO. Maybe Carrara2 will help. I can't afford much more than that.

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