Ok let's get some details out first.

Victoria 4 - using ezskin3 for the base setup

This does NOT happen in poser 12.

I can take a Poser 12 file without it happening, open it in Poser 13 and it happens.

there are weird blow out to white spots happening to select jpg textures in poser 13's scatter node.

Below is the Poser 12 render...

then below is Poser 13 -of the same exact file

I'm not worried about the brightness and skin, my problem is the pupil/iris.

At first, I thought it was picking up some reflective white surface, but after pulling out a lot of hair, I discovered if I just used a different texture it would go away.

then I noticed this in the material room...

WEIRD blowout spots that just happen to be exactly where the spot is on her eyes....

but if I plug in a different texture...

I thought maybe there's some difference in the color settings of the jpgs... but I can overlay the "bad" one over the "good one" in photoshop and make a new jpg that still acts weird.

SO- for now I can just find another texture that's close enough as a workaround... but I'd really like to find out what the culprit is and how to fix it.

Thanks!

I came, I rendered, I'm still broke.