I've been having this issue with my Miki character for awhile. I had thought that there was a post here already on the subject but I'd be darned if I can find it. It seems that the default texture that I got with Miki (the 1020 pack) has a slightly different shade to the head and the body. This cause a slight seem when used on the model with the default settings, but a big seem when I add in a skin shader node tree. Is anyone else seeing this or is it just me? and if so does anyone have a solution to it? I'd gladly accept a link to another thread if there is one. I was hoping to post an image illustrating this, but I'm not at my Poser PC at the moment and Poser likes to crash in a remote session. Thanks,

I think the "seam" you're seeing is actually a crease in the mesh itself. Above is an untextured Miki.

This is Miki with ExprssnImg's "Giselle" character. A big improvement. So it shows that a skillful texturer can overcome this problem. This was rendering in Firefly with "smooth polygons" checked (which doesn't seem to actually help the problem.)

yea I noticed that also, but that's not the issue that I'm having the issue that I see is that the skin texture color it's self is about 1 or 2 shades redder.
I was able to get a screen cap to show what I mean

it almost looks like someone was trying to go for a tan line, but I don't think that was the case.

Message edited on: 03/28/2006 15:21

Hmmm. I'm not seeing anything that abrupt. Is your pic above with shader nodes applied? What lighting are you using?

Jeez... crappy Poser compression. Here's the render.

Try different lighting?

I'm using the winter lights low that came in the Winter Queen set and there are shader nodes applied, but they are identical from the head and the body. The shader nodes are something that I hacked together using a modded version of hyperreal, but I see this on most renders even with out the nodes. Do you think it's possible that I have an earlier version of the head texture with a later version of a body texture? I had to reload and redownload somethings after a puter crash.

I whacked in some quick skin shaders (from [AerySoul's Skin Shader Tutorial](http://www.aerysoul.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=551&sid=442afc4feb52a316487d47e92302b17e)) and mucked about with the lighting some, and I'm seeing a division there *because* I'm looking for it, but it's not like yours, thixen. Certainly might be worth resetting your downloads at CP - I bought Miki with the CE Content Deal, so I'm not sure if the skin texture has been updated. Certainly the default texture isn't very detailed or attractive, so you might want to look at picking up some sets for her.

ok I think it partly may have to do with the shaders that I'm using here is another image that I was able to squeak out before Poser locked up again. (it really doesn't like remote desktoping to it) and I don't see as big of a difference. I'll have to revisit my mods to the hyperreal script to see what I got wrong.
image linked cause it's pretty big

thanks for all the help, it made me feel loved :D

Message edited on: 03/28/2006 16:21

Have you tried using the bucket tool to check if Yuki's head and body are tinted the same way? It looks like that is what happened.

Message edited on: 03/28/2006 18:21