Yes that's what I've been trying to make clear now for 15 pages :) lol

There are four key elements of my skin shader. I think I talked about them before but after 17 pages of thread even I don't remember what I said.

The four key elements are:

Conservation of energy (energy out <= energy in)
Fresnel effect (reflection varies with viewing angle)
Subsurface scattering
Gamma correction

You will find some subset of these in some shaders by others but you won't find all. Plus, how I did them is different than almost everybody. I've done these things 20 different ways in the past, and the current shader network has the widest set of conditions under which it still works right, while still being very computationally efficient.

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