g8m soft skin transitions extremely shiny

Upirium

I do not know what I am doing wrong here.

The offending arm in question:

 

things I have done:

applied trans shell for 8.1 to 8.1, included with g8m soft skin transitions

loaded new genesis 8.1. loaded the skin i want (an edited version of torment g8.1m ) copied and pasted heiarchies from the new skin to the shell

used 'prepare trans shell 8.1' on the shell.

selected desired transition

rendered image, it's incredibly shiny. tried lowering anything with gloss i could find but why would htis even be happening in the first place? no difference. clarified it was not a lighting issue by rendering the arm of the spare g8.1m

 

started completely new file

did the following steps as above

outcome the same

 

lou_harper

Maybe it's the metallicity settings.