"Not a very good solution for animation either, xoconostle, where lighting situations may change dramatically. It also doesn't represent "scatter-through" effects, like where your ears turn red when lit brightly from behind."

True; It's not actual SSS. However I meant to address the issue of skin tones of imported Poser figures looking "dead" or "gray," as is a frequent complaint. This trick does help make Poser figure skin look slightly more realistic and "alive" in most cases. In some, especially when the sun is behind the figure, it's not necessary to add the back light. I haven't done much animation in Vue so I hadn't considered the issues there. Of course you can parent the back light to the figure's head (or whatever part,) but now that you mention it this technique would probably work best for still images, as it would be a major pain to correct the eye area transparency issue in an animation. Perhaps someone reading this will find it useful to play with for their still Vue images. :-)

Message edited on: 06/21/2005 19:12