Hi all

I've been trying to improve on the skin material of imported Poser models and thought I'd share the fruits of my labours.After much experimentation I've come up with the following tweaks to the highlight settings which I think result in a much more realistic render:

Open up the material browser, locate the various skin materials and make the following changes to the settings in the highlights tab:

• Set the Highlight Global Intensity to 40%
• Set the Highlight colour to a very light pink or yellow (you may want to play about with different colours depending on the lighting of your scene).
• Activate variable transparency and load in the 'Soft Spots' function (or 'Pitted surface' for a subtler effect.).

This seems to yield good results under most basic lighting/atmosphere set ups but I found that it wasn't that great with volumetric atmospheres - for these I suggest setting the Highlight Global Size down to 0% which seems to work much better.

I'd be interested to know what people think or, more importantly, if anyone can come up with a better formula!

Here's an example of these settings in action. The first pic is a straight Poser import, the second uses the formula above.

Cheers

K.