Well, for what it's worth, I've got a side-by-side pic comparing SSS with a pink color to SSS with a more peachy color to just texture maps plugged in as normal. From left to right: SSS with fastscatter color set to rgb 26, 10, 8, edge blend outer color pure white and inner color set to rgb 223, 177, 165. SSS with fastscatter color set to rgb 20, 14, 11, edge blend outer color white and inner color set to 221, 179, 158. Pulled right in from the P5 setup, textures just plugged in to the diffuse entry.

There is justification behind the colors. For the leftmost, I sampled a highlight off the face texture, shifted that to red to get "blood flow" look, then plugged that in to the inner color and lightened it a great deal, and plugged it in to the fastscatter color and darkened it a lot. For the rightmost, I found a good midtone, lightened it a little for the inner color, and darkened it for the fastscatter.

I did a test just putting in a straight ambient, and there is a definite difference. The ambient glows all over, while the SSS has nice shadows where they should be.

Message edited on: 04/11/2005 19:06