I have tried searching the forum and could find no mention of this problem. I have taken  to modeling low poly count models for the last few years which I had originally made in Poser 6 using the Poser 4 renderer. When I switched to Poser 8 and started using Firefly and raytracing, I got these dark, blotchy shadows all along the vertices on lower polygon sections on figures. I have been tolerating this for years, coping with it by increasing poly counts and doing work arounds like camera scaling to minimize their effects. If I scale the object larger, this effect is exaggerated even more. Scaled down, and it is minimized. I have been rendering everything at 10% scale to get around this, but it is becoming an real issue.

 

Is there anything I can do to eliminate these black lines, or am I stuck with them?

 

Any help would be appreciated.