Have you looked at a combination of the Bodypaint demo and the Riptide plugin?

kfox - go into the Skin Template on the VSS prop and disconnect anything from the displacement node and then synchronise, see if that fixes it.

Boxing Day is the day after Christmas! A wonderful day for just lounging around, and eating and drinking until you're fit to burst. It's kinda like Christmas Day but with none of the pressure or forced gaiety.

Most stores also start their post-Christmas sales then, too. Ridiculous stories, sometimes, of people queueing, waiting for the stores to open. I say, stay inside and have another mince pie!

I remember Eurosport used V3 (I think) a couple of years ago when they were doing some promos for the Winter Olympics in Turin. Recognisable by the noodle shoulders lol

Vista 64 and 8GB of RAM are only useful if you're using Poser Pro and the background render option.

Check to make sure that Gamma Correction is OFF in Poser Pro (in the render settings)

The UV map for M4 is different from V4, but you can easily use UV Mapper to remap M4 to take V4's textures. I used this tutorial (beware! PDF file!) someone posted on the DAZ forums. Great fun rendering him with the V4Male textures.

Have a look in the DAZ MilMan texture folder - I've just got the free version, but I've still got a full body texture without briefs. But it needs to be applied manually, I think.

It looks like the ambient node to me. But it doesn't look like it's doing anything in the render. Check it in the material room, it should be black.

It's the hair from V4 Ranger at Daz.

You can find lots of dynamic clothing in the freestuff area. Most are designed for V3 or V4, but since they're dynamic, you can fit them to practically any figure.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7568929.stm

Statistics can be shown to prove almost anything. By themselves, statistics are meaningless, until people try to interpret them. The link above is part of a rather interesting series about the manipulation on numbers and figures, and well worth a read (there's a drop-down menu for the other parts of the series in the right column).

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

Not strictly related to the galleries, but what makes me groan with despair for humanity is when I see a picture where the hair is obviously composited in from a photograph, and then a comment along the lines of "The hair looks so realistic!" smacks head against wall

Like cobaltdream said, oftentime images rendered in other programs, but created with Poser characters, get slammed by those "purists" who use said program (3ds, C4d, etc). And if a Poser character is simply rendered in another program, would it belong in that category just BECAUSE it had been rendered in it?

The problem with mixed medium is that there ARE no definitions really for what mixed medium IS. Does a simply auto-color/contrast/levels in Photoshop count? Does 40 pixels worth of postwork to correct some dodgy joints? If 85% of the work is Poser, should it be Poser or Mixed Medium? 

Let the artist decide.

Have the set the displacement option in the render settings? And set the displacement limits to 1?

OG, V4 was originally designed as the 17k model, and then subdivided when she was "Poser-ised". So yes, skin maps will work. I also believe other people have used Morph Manager to transfer the V4 morphs to the 17k version. That might help when working on Max.