I have a PoserPro render of v4 that I wanted to try to rerender in c8Pro. The skin shader is too shiny and the dress shader is too shiny. It may be the lights, I will try again with C8 lights only, What shader that comes with c8pro or is on rendo site is a good starting point for an average caucasian skin shader. But one that is suitable for Photorealistic renders.

You can use any skin texture that you want, but you need to do some adjustments. Follow those videos that I did about this:

Real eyes Vic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh9lug3z1Ts

Fixing Poser content:

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7ViS7YW1KI

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jD7yHQOblE

I will gladly watch those. I am looking for renders similar to your "Window' and "Pool" images, which are quite lovely. I have seen some awesome renders in Carrara lately so I have to see if I can push my images further with it.

as an aside I have noticed it's quite lazy with CPU utilization, at least now as it struggles with the final "block" thingy. Poser and Vue will run all 24 cores at 100% utilization, C8Pro is cruising along at 8%. I will look later and see how it utilizes at the beginning of the render when all the blocks are on screen.

I like to use HDRI and one or two spot lights in my renders, sometimes only a Sun light can do a great job.

Here my C8 get almost 100% during render making things hard to work...

I have noticed the same issue with Poser shaders, mostly V3 and V4 shaders but sometimes clothing item shaders as well.  I just hiighlight and select the "model" under V4 and then go to the shader room.  on th ebottom left it lists all of the shaders for the character.  Open them up one at a time by double clicking and lower their reflection and highlight settings, as well as shininess settings, to a value you like.  Do the same for each of the shaders that are for normal skin.  Don't do it for eye shaders or mouth shaders.  Hope this helps.

Rich

Quote - I like to use HDRI and one or two spot lights in my renders, sometimes only a Sun light can do a great job.

Here my C8 get almost 100% during render making things hard to work...

I know how to use HDRI in Poser, does one of your tutorials cover that for cararra?

Yes, you can use this one, about my new pack, but its the same for any HDRI image:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-xqMh1zy8