(sigh) GWeb, as I said in post 30, "realistic" and "organic" is in the eye of the beholder. Your render (which has since been deleted) did not look entirely organic to me ... the skin was too uniform. If you are basing "organic" on subsurface scattering, we already know that P6 has that feature. If I am not mistaken, you can also control the color of shadows in your material settings.

Just because you have not seen the criteria that you are looking for yet does not mean that Poser does not have the capability to do it. It only means that the people that created the renders might have an entirely different idea of "realism" and "holy grail" renders that you do. Art is very subjective. P5 may very well have had the features you seek all along ... for example, the "Real Skin Shader" fakes subsurface scattering and makes skin more organic. What it boils down to, is ANY software is only as capable as the people who use it. It doesn't really matter what other people can do with it, what really matters is what YOU can do with it.

Message edited on: 03/19/2005 15:26