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Set the highlight color to "black" at 100%.

Or, try using a bump map created from random noise. Breaks up the highlights and can give the skin a more realistic irregular surface texture.

Well, getting home from the day's events I look at the file and it did have a black highlight on the skin at 71%. Setting it to 100% didn't give me a noticable effect on this figure. I'll see what the bump map idea will do. Once I figure out how to make one of random noise... :)

Well. I just did two test renders with noised bump maps. One using a 300300 noise bump map that gave no 'for sure' effect. The other at 20002000 pixels made her look like a surviver of an extreme case of chicken pox. With skin resembling the surface of a crator pocked moon... So, any recomendations as to what sort of setting I should go for?

Sounds like you just have the bump map level set too high. Try single-pixel sized noise on a map 2000x2000 and set the bumpmap level to around 10-20% in the surface materials box. The effect also depends on how close your figure is to the camera. Should get something like this. This image is from a new skin texture WIP. This one had the level set at 20% on the skin (perhaps a little too high still) and 100% on the nipples. Skin highlight value was 44 and nipple highlight was 244.

And, by "100% black" I believe Jeff meant to set the highlight luminance value to zero.

I got the skin settings from Steve Cooper. Highlight Black set to 100%. He said something about it spreading the highlight more evenly over the figure...

Ah. I set highlight to 100% on the dial. Btw, how did you mange to get a picture posted in a message reply? I don't see anything for including a picture in here. Does it accept html in the body of these things? I wanted to post what I was getting last night but couldn't figure out how to without starting a whole new thread (which seemed like a waste).

Yep, HTML image tags work...

Whoops! Sorry about the confusion. I was refering to the settings for Highlight "Color" and Jeff is refering to the slider for Highlight "Size". HTML tag to include an image in a post: (img src="the/URL/for/your/image.jpg") replacing the parentheses with greater-than and less-than signs.