Why does the neck/body area come out so poorly. I am using the V3BodyMHi.jpg from DAZ on a Vic3 Character. Looking at my settings what changes can be made to elimanate the "blotchy" appearence.

Thanks

Try to uncheck "Texture filtering"

Thanks I'll give it a try. BTW what does texture filtering do??

According to the manual, it gives the texture a softer appearance and it's supposed to be used when you can't achieve a good anti-aliasing with the usual means. It should be disabled unless you have a good reason not to. I have never used it for anything, but it sounds like it might give the effect you are getting if used in the wrong situation.

Thanks that seemed to be the ticket

Looks good :-)

Didn't help those shadows though-- I have this problem whenever the hair falls over the face-- then have to chase down various spotlights and turn off shadows in all but one or two. If anyone else has better idea on that-- I'm really open I hate that mess of shadows. Any reasons for your pixel samples being so high? I use the default, much lower. Same with bucket.

queri: i usually turn of the shadows in the hair itsselfs. select the hair or hairparts and in the properties uncheck the "cast shadows". I dislike thoseshadows too and the hair renders much faster.

I do the same thing, I was just hoping for another alternative-- I always run into someone int he galleries whining about no shadows on my hair.;)) Emily

You might try going back to a box filter for the hair shadows. Are you using ray-traced shadows on your lights? Try using mapped shadows. They can be blurred to your taste (though they will increase render time and memory).