I finally have my comp res set where I can use P5 and see the text. Now I've been working on using face_off's skin shader for my textures. I saved the torso and head textures as materials but do I need to save each and every body part as separate materials or will it work similar to a PPro Mat file? And am I allowed to distribute my textures after altering with skin shader? I've checked the manual but couldn't find anything on saving the materials. Could be I'm too stuffed from my dinner to think straight. LOL. Thanks for any help.

What does the readme say? You should ideally contact Face_off about this and ask.

Since the technique behind Real Skin Shader is described on Face_off's own site, it is potentially possible to set it all up manually. And in that case, you made the nodes, they're yours, you can distribute them. Real Skin shader only automates the process. So I think they WOULD be legal to distrubute. That said, it wouldn't do much good really, as they're dependant on where the light in your scene is, and therefore it would look wrong (or at least not as good) if it was used in a scene where the lights were different than the scene you made the setup in. And of course, the HyperReal shader (and I know that wasn't the one you asked about) includes some texture maps / vascular maps that can NOT be redistributed. But I'm interested in this, too. I'm making textures at the moment and if it was possible to include at least a sort of the Real Skin Shader, it would increase their value.

As Ernyoka siad - the whole shading network is built around the light positions - so including the RSS node network in a product is not recommended. It would give some very odd results under certain lighting conditions.

Ah, thank you everyone. Just that I've been reading where someone was asking about why people didn't support P5 and P6 more using the node capabilities and it made me wonder. It does make sense not to as the file would probably balloon way up if all that was included. LOL.

BluEcho,
What if you included your own light sets in your pack?

Just curious :)

Guida - that would work! However, I think most customers would be very hesitant to purchase a textureset that only works with a predefined lightset.

True true.. there goes my 2 Euro cents :)

hmm, I think I'll stick to doing my textures and characters for a bit longer and leave the nodes and scripts to those who do them best. :) I'll continue using skin shader for my personal renders because they look much better that way. Thanks for all the input.