*Quote "Don't forget it wasn't just the skin - it replaced your eye shader and teeth shaders, too. Nobody has mentioned them even once, good or ill. I didn't really spend much time on them - they need some improvement, I think."

 * Sorry about focusing only on the Skin. Very happy with the eyes and teeth as well. Compared to previous versions of this scene where the eyes had no reflections and the teeth were not really visible. As you mentioned elsewhere the typical dark Poser look.  Thanks for all your work and for  letting us test drive this. As far as suggestions let me play with it some more and I'll let you know.

 

I thought I would try the VSS and skin shader with a light set that I have put together based loosely on a tutorial over at Aery Soul's site. The set uses two HDRI IBLs (images available at the site) and a couple of point lights. One as the main and a second for fill. Also has a Rim spot. I've been using the light set on most of the recent images I've done because it would give me consistent results with various textures. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Skin shader would work out of the box with these lights. So I took an existing scene, applied the texture without any tweaking, hit Synch and rendered. Used the Ver2 prop and BB's suggested Awesome render settings. Got an almost perfect image with slight artifacts. Per suggestions up thread change the AO ray bias to .3, hit Synch and rendered. I'm very impressed with the look. I've also used BB's suggested Gamma Correction Shader on the hair. I love this skin shader and I love the VSS. The ability to tweak a single template and have it apply the shader changes to multiple zones, no fuss, no muss, thats something that gets me excited..... At this point I'd buy it "as is". BB are you taking pre-orders??