Will post two screenshot-links here in hmm 10 minutes. Need to wait for the rendering process to finish before I can access any menus.

For this I will edit this post.

Ok here it comes: http://rhian-skyblade.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse/scraps

Three Screenshots.

Hi and thanks for the answer.

With PE Explorer you can force Poser to use more than 3 GB. When I render my stuff, just like this -> http://rhian-skyblade.deviantart.com/art/Having-a-chat-at-the-tavern-77009738 and my Perfomance-Monitor tells me that 3,75 - 3,8 are in use during the process. Nothing else beside Poser runs during that time.

(I do not dare to show my stuff here yet, until I am good enough :D )

This took nearly 1 hour of rendering.

The Background you see there belongs to the Medieval Tavern, and I used the Tap-Room / Bar Preset. It contains tables/chairs which you can't see and bottles, a bar, and a keg, and all such things. Nothing fancy with ray tracing... the only item I used ray-tracing for were the glasses/spectacles.

Thank you :) I am currently working on my female character I showed in this thread where I have now the hair I wanted for her :)

But there is currently an issue with Victoria 4 files. I fear there will be another dead weekend to get it all re-installed and previously my custom files saved away somewhere.

Sorry for answering so late. Living in CET time zone, and currently I am at work.

As for the granulated look of the other face - I believe it has something to do with the skin-texture itself plus surface shimmer/reflection. I have this effect usually when I use too much contrast (in PS) or use bright lights for the hue.
Sometimes this effect happened to me when I used a colored texture for the bump texture.

Thank you for the help and hints! :) Will make good use of them as soon as I am home again. I am quite Poser addicted :D and got also myself now a tutorial book for practical poser 7 character creation.

I probably will be around a lot here for now. It's amazing how much new stuff I find out each day (just got my tutorial book today, and did most stuff (http://rhian-skyblade.deviantart.com/) without any books/manuals).

Not certain if they are worthwhile enough to be shown off here at the gallery.

weee finally got the problem solved.
And it was such a stupid mistake. blush I accidentally have taken a facial texture that used to have make up... the make up was not strikingly visible as human skin color. But with purple it got visible sigh wow and I was really close to get frustrated

Hello again,

My novel is more or less my freetime hobby to improve my english skills, with the slight wish to get it published one day even if it is only for the ego stroke to have people reading it :)

I checked with the material room, also adjusted all the advanced settings - even exchanged some textures as I found that there were some old human skin colored base versions left.
I made certain all the light colors are the same and still have the same effect.

It is as if the face is meant to have a different skin color sigh

I also looked for the python file, and it's not there anymore :-( at least I can't find it. Also checked the www for it.

This character I try to render is one of my novel characters I wanted to render.
She has dark purple skin, more with a bluish tint than pinkish :-(

I have no problem at all with human skin colors. That's why I was confused.

About the desaturation. I have tried that one, too.
About three different attempts I havde done to change the skin colors into purple/dark lilac.
It always ended up that the face was in the end darker or differently toned than the rest of the body.

But I will try to play with the material surface lights. Perhaps I can find something.

Anyone knows if the 3D compatibility/plugin of Adobe Photoshop CS 3 also can understand formats of Maya 8.5 ? Forward and Backward?