hello and welcome! thank you for viewing my work. and a double thanks to those who comment. i really appreciate your helping me improve my work. so i took faaeria's advice and made a version of the cloak with a hood. i'm thinking both options (with and without) would be good to include. i'll also try to make a version with the hood back. i'm not sure right now how i'm going to do that, but i'll figure _something_ out and see what everyone thinks. the bottom image is the pants brought into Poser with a very quickie material applied. the edges are velvet, because i figured a velvet trim might be nice. or maybe velvet with a satin trim? i'd definitely be interested in suggestions. the main aspect i'm trying to work out right now is finding an AO bias that doesn't make artifacts, and a scale for my procedural displacement that works. i haven't achieved either yet, but i thought it would be good to show progress so far. and the big hurdle has been cleared. the pants don't make Poser complain, and the weird poke through i get on tight clothes when i import has been dealt with. i'm guessing it's a scale issue (i work at 10x's scale, and maybe some weird little error occurs scaling back down). just to mention, this uses the zero pose as a starting point. the texture is Aaron by Morris, the skin shader is mine. actually, every shader is mine except the background, which is a blend of bagginsbill's backdrop shader and my own (probably misguided) Matmatic experiments. the pose is a jinga from a random set of capoeira poses i discovered in my runtime. i can't remember where or when i acquired them, but they're perfect for testing extreme poses. this is, of course, the least extreme one. so thanks to whoever made them!