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Hi jrabbit (thanks), The skin texture tests were done in Carrara 4 before there was SSS. The link goes to a thread where I illustrated some of the tricks I used to get that shader set up - plus the fake SSS (bitmap in the glow channel multiplied by red colour, use the texture map brightness slider to adjust the intensity. I think it was roughly the same time as Shonner was working on his procedural skin shader - a great example of how to mix things together & how complex a shader Carrara can create. Mine is more bitmap based, but all the mixers are procedural. And Gwynhale also developed a good looking procedural skin shader around that time as well. Skin shaders are one of those CG things that turn up every so often for any 3D software. And now its SSS turn - good thing too, the manual isn't much help beyond a brief description of the functions. I'm still experimenting with incorporating SSS with I've put together so far.