bandolin, there's a couple of good threads by Agent Smith here in the forum about simulating SSS in Bryce. :-) Another good link for ambient occlusion: http://www.techimage.co.uk/index.php?c=ambiocc&m=1 And this is about SSS from Renderman Academy http://www.rendermanacademy.com/docs/SSS_depthmaps.htm Neil Blevins has something about SSS, too. That is, about translucency. http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/translucency/translucency.htm I'll also take a better look at the Poser SSS shader and see what I can glean from it.

-- erlik