face_off I used the same scene for the dog as for James, the setting of james head is above but I used only my own new textures that will free soon. I tested before the SS and don;t got so good effect that why I wrote under your last topic if you tested it, you told me what to do and I did in above images.... it works for me as well.. Becco_UK you are right in this preview we get sort of translucence effect and that is sort of Subsurface Scattering but there you have 2 sort of the paper effect and the waxy effect SS in Poser6 do the job right and you get the waxy effect if you use also the AO IBL to render it, self the SS is very fast to render but AO take longer time... If you use translucence node for the head you fill never get the effect as with Poser6 SS.. I tested everything without effect before only if I used extra translucence map it worked very well.. now I don't need it anymore.. here is not standard setting for that, you can create deeper effect or just :translucence: looks like effect.. very interesting stuff and take some time to play with for sure. xoconostle .. Thanks! I just share my own tests and ideas don't mean that is everything you can get, it is only begining and here a mini tutor is always a nice thing to start from..

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