Angelouscuitry opened this issue on Dec 08, 2006 · 41 posts
pjz99 posted Fri, 08 December 2006 at 3:21 AM
There are a lot of advanced applications for it that I don't pretend to understand, but there is a basic subsurface scattering Wacro in the advanced material room that is one click to apply. To get an idea of how it looks please check my featured gallery pic, it has a high rez high quality example with text explaining which material uses SSS. Basically I use it to catch light on things that don't want to catch it.
It works better on darker textures because very light textures already throw back a lot of light anyway; what it does is mimic the way a slightly translucent surface will gather and bend light rather than absorbing it flat or reflecting it flat.
Poser 6 does come with it out of the box, look in the Materials room on the Advanced tab, it's a plain Wacro; you just click whatever material, hit "Add Subsurface Scattering" and it's done.
Image:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1341120